A capstone course synthesizes knowledge and skills in research and design to apply them to a meaningful project in a practical real-world context. In the domain of UXD, this involves conducting research to understand user needs and organizational priorities, discovering issues, gaps, and opportunities, and creating potential solutions by designing or redesigning interactions, services, interfaces, or experiences.

Situating discovery and design work in the context of a complex ecology of stakeholder values, needs, and priorities requires alignment, facilitation, presentation, and negotiation skills, while delivering impact and value through design involves strategic planning of research and design outputs, scoping activities and milestones, and selecting appropriate tools and approaches from the breadth of UX practice. Students receive coaching and guidance in supervised working sessions to complete a major capstone design project with an outside client organization.

This course can be used to fulfil the "Professional Values" Requirement.