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:
- 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. - 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. - 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
Collective Motherhood: Improving the Parenthood Journey through Peer Support
Multiple cities, USA
HCD+ RECOGNITION
Arizona State University (USA), Industrial Design
Tempe, AZ, USA
Universidad de San Andrés, Bachelors degree in Design (Licenciatura en Diseño)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
California College of the Arts, Masters in Interaction Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
The Design Village: A Multidisciplinary Design College, offers BDes and MDes degrees
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Psychomobile: Mobile Mental Health Clinic
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Baby Bus: Mobile Educational Project
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Digitisation of Pharmaceutical Licenses
Peshawar, Pakistan
KP Women Civic Internship Program
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Green university: Designing a Sustainable Society
Estado de México, Mexico
District Education Empowerment Program
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Helsinki, Finland
Hong Kong
PROJECT SHORTLIST
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
PROJECT FINALIST
Anne - Communication for DeafBlind People
Nice, France
BioCap: Reducing Atmospheric CO2 by Harnessing the Power of Algae
Bozeman, MT, USA
Circularity Scorecard
London, England, UK
Community-Led Action on Nutrition: to inculcate sustainable nutrition centric behaviors by women leaders
Odisha, India
EasyMed: A drug and food interaction checker providing peace of mind for the elderly with advanced AI
San Diego, CA, USA
Medleg Hub - Empowering young Mongolians to tackle societal challenges
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
EnergizeX - Co-Designing Community-Based Urban Energy Solutions
Milan, Italy
Enhancing Culturally Responsive Pregnancy Care
Boston, MA, USA
The AGRIMAN AGventures campaign uses comics and theater to educate children on food security, environmental conservation, and sustainable agriculture
Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago
Suzhou, China
Bike with Aéro, your city goes green
Vancouver, Canada
Eco-Play Band: Wearable for Kids
Zhengzhou, China
FORK: Food Design for Opportunities, Research and Knowledge
Brussels, Belgium
Largest collection of community contributed bedtime stories to preserve wisdom of generations from various cultures
San Diego, CA, USA
Locus: AR application that helps young adults with ADHD
Bloomington, IN, USA
NextDoor: A Community Driven Storage Solution
Bangalore, India
Peer 2 Peer: Designing for Peer Social Engagement and Social-Emotional Wellbeing of Children with Cerebral Palsy
Manchester, UK
Safety-enrichment of non-standardized rework activities of FMCG manufacturing units working within industrially developing nations
Guwahati, Assam, India
Sharing Power: Codifications and Collective Learnings from Vancouver’s Climate Justice Field School
Vancouver, Canada
SolarSENSE / Solar-powered Soil Sensor
Tempe, AZ, USA
EDUCATION FINALIST
Central Saint Martins, Birkbeck MBA. University of the Arts London
London, England, UK
Humanitarian Engineering, University of Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
M.S., Human Factors in Information Design, Bentley University
Waltham, MA, USA
School of Design, FLAME University
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Trans-disciplinary bachelor's degree program, D-School, National Taiwan University
Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Bachelor of Popular Music
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Undergraduate Program
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Indiana University's Comprehensive Design: Human Centered Design at Multiple Scales
Bloomington, IN, USA
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
InovaHC
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universal Accessibility
Toluca, Mexico