team
Alice Qiu
Natasha Gengler
Kaitlyn Gehrman
skills
Fieldwork
Qualitative interviews
Persona mapping
Storytelling
Information architecture
Vibe coding
Interaction design
tools
Figma
Miro
Adobe Illustrator
ChatGPT
Claude + Claude Code
Gemini
VS Code
Github
Vercel
introduction
As psychedelic-assisted therapies gain momentum in research, healthcare, and public policy, public understanding has struggled to keep pace. Conversations around psychedelics remain shaped by decades of stigma, misinformation, and abstinence-based drug education, leaving patients, clinicians, policymakers, and communities without accessible, trustworthy ways to navigate an already complex topic.
Partnering with Texans for Greater Mental Health (T4GMH), a nonprofit leading psychedelic policy and advocacy in Texas, our capstone team explored how experience-centered design could bridge this gap. Together, we designed a new model for public education—one that weaves together scientific evidence, lived experience, harm reduction, history, and Indigenous knowledge into a credible, interactive learning experience. One that replaces fear with understanding.
challenge
Some interconnections in systems are actual physical flows, such as the water in the tree’s trunk or the students progressing through a university. Many interconnections are flows of information—signals that go to decision points or action points within a system. These kinds of interconnections are often harder to see, but the system reveals them to those who look.
solution
Some interconnections in systems are actual physical flows, such as the water in the tree’s trunk or the students progressing through a university. Many interconnections are flows of information—signals that go to decision points or action points within a system. These kinds of interconnections are often harder to see, but the system reveals them to those who look.
result
Some interconnections in systems are actual physical flows, such as the water in the tree’s trunk or the students progressing through a university. Many interconnections are flows of information—signals that go to decision points or action points within a system. These kinds of interconnections are often harder to see, but the system reveals them to those who look.