Katie Schmiedicker

Industrial Design, 2017

Mylo: A children’s tool to explore the stars.

Current methods to view space separate tangible and digital experiences, inhibiting collaborative and immersive learning for children. Mylo is a portable tabletop projector that allows children to collaborate, explore, and learn about the sky. This tool balances tangible learning and digital education methods to keep children interested in science.

Mylo honors the importance of nurturing a child’s passion and imaginative spirit, instilling a sense of discovery, wonderment, and joy. Touch interactions with the display allow the user to control their personalized educational experience. In creating a custom learning path, children can cater each lesson to their own interests and invite friends to collaborate. Six micro-projectors display mythological animations and speakers give audible instructions for exploration. As users move up levels, they unlock more detail about each object in the sky. Mylo expands in complexity and intrigue with the child as they grow to discover more.

Katie Schmiedicker has an immense passion for the front end of the design process. Specifically, she enjoys research and co-design participatory research strategies. Katie believes in understanding and sympathizing with consumers to create comprehensive, beautifully designed solutions that address user needs. Much of her love for design comes from opportunities to travel and explore unique ways of problem solving around the world.