Don Norman Design Award (DNDA) acknowledges and honors exceptional visionaries while seeking to identify emerging talent globally. A distinguished jury committee evaluates each submission based on its merits and assigns a score accordingly. We are proud to present the DNDA 2024 Laureates below. 

DNDA awards fall into three categories:

1. Projects by early career practitioners
   This is a contest, with two levels of awards: Excellence and Promising. In DNDA24, three groups received the award of Excellence and two groups were Promising.
2. Educational groups that are recognized for education in Humanity-Centered Design (HCD+)
   This is not a contest. All groups that show evidence of successful education by showing that graduates are now involved in HCD+ projects are recognized.
3. Special Recognition
   During the judging, we encountered a number of projects that were deemed excellent, but that did not fit the categories of early career or education. We decided to give them special recognition.

Entries that were Finalists or Short-Listed
In addition to these three categories, we recognize the excellence and hard work of those who did not receive awards or special recognition: Those who made it to our Final list of projects and Educational groups (Finalists), and then, from the finalists, those who made it to the very short-list of projects under consideration for an award. Only seven projects were on the short list, from which five received awards. The two remaining short-listed candidates were truly excellent, above all other applicants, but not quite at the level for an award.

EXCELLENCE

PROMISING

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

PROJECT FINALIST

Anne - Communication for DeafBlind People

BioCap: Reducing Atmospheric CO2 by Harnessing the Power of Algae

Circularity Scorecard

Community-Led Action on Nutrition: to inculcate sustainable nutrition centric behaviors by women leaders

EasyMed: A drug and food interaction checker providing peace of mind for the elderly with advanced AI

Medleg Hub - Empowering young Mongolians to tackle societal challenges

EnergizeX - Co-Designing Community-Based Urban Energy Solutions

Enhancing Culturally Responsive Pregnancy Care

Journey to Collective Motherhood: Alumni Peer Navigator (APN) Services

The AGRIMAN AGventures campaign uses comics and theater to educate children on food security, environmental conservation, and sustainable agriculture

Waterless Squatting Toilet

Bike with Aéro, your city goes green

Co-Designing the Healthcare Transition Journey with Patients, Families, and Stakeholders Through a Service Design Approach

Eco-Play Band: Wearable for Kids

FORK: Food Design for Opportunities, Research and Knowledge

Largest collection of community contributed bedtime stories to preserve wisdom of generations from various cultures

Locus: AR application that helps young adults with ADHD

NextDoor: A Community Driven Storage Solution

Peer 2 Peer: Designing for Peer Social Engagement and Social-Emotional Wellbeing of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Safety-enrichment of non-standardized rework activities of FMCG manufacturing units working within industrially developing nations

Sharing Power: Codifications and Collective Learnings from Vancouver’s Climate Justice Field School

SolarSENSE / Solar-powered Soil Sensor