BU FORGE Design Studios

Come learn more about FORGE at SPLASH 2.0 on January 24th, 12-2:30pm in the Metcalf Ballroom in GSU.🚀✨

Can’t make it? Catch us at the STEM Splash on January 31st. Can’t wait to see you! 🤩

We’re thrilled to share the solutions from the November UX Challenge! 🤩✨ Take a look at the incredible designs created by our challenge teams. Amazing work by everyone who participated! ❤️👏

Keep an eye for our nest semester’s UIUX Designathon, Catalyst! It’ll be the perfect opportunity for you to put your UX skills to use and win prizes! 🌟😍

Get festive and get creative! 🎄✨Join us to make your own holiday stickers and bring your seasonal ideas to life! Bring your laptops for our workshop where we’ll teach you to use Adobe Illustrator to make your own stickers. 💻🌟

📍HTC 206
🗓️ Friday December 5th
🕛 6-7 PM

✨ Announcing the October UX Challenge - Hikari Matcha! 🍵
Read the brief below and learn about the possible routes your design can follow. Use any platform of your choice and make as little or many screens/pages/flows as you wish. Submit your designs through the link in our bio. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis throughout October. This challenge is open to all university students, no matter your skill level or experience, so put on your designer hats and get designing! ✍️🎨
If you have any questions, feel free to DM us or email us at [email protected]. ✨

FORGE is launching a new UX program this semester! 🎉🎉
Want to gain UX design skills and create designs that you can add to your portfolio? Join our October UX Team! 🌟🌟
Members of the team will meet up once a week for one hour. FORGE will present you with a design challenge along with ways and techniques that you can use to solve the challenge! You put in as much effort as you want. No experience needed! 💥💫
For those unable to make regular time commitments, we will post an online version of the challenge with more instructions to come! ⏰
Sign up by September 26th at the link in our bio now! 🌟🌟

Start the semester strong at FORGE’s First General Body Meeting! 🎉
Join us for a night of free pizza, fun games, and an exciting announcement for this new semester of FORGE....👀🍕
📅 Date: Friday, Sep 19th
⏰ Time: 6-7 PM
📌 Location: PHO 205
Bring your friends and energy, see you there! 💥

🌟E-Board Applications Are Now OPEN!🌟

Forge is looking for new leaders to join our team this Fall 2025! 🎉 Step into a role where you can help shape the direction of our organization and grow alongside an inspiring community.💫

We’re seeking a VP of Admin and Marketing Managers. This is your chance to gain valuable experience, strengthen your skills, and make a lasting impact in the design community.💡

Apply now through the link in our bio and feel free to reach out with any questions. 💫
DEADLINE: September 1st

It’s the final Workshop of the Week! This week’s Personal Branding Workshop gave our interns the tools to shape their professional identity and build a strong online presence. ✨📣

We guided our interns through designing their own unique personal brand by creating a quick mood board, selecting a personal color palette, and deciding on a representative set of keywords. 🌟🔥

Welcome back to our Workshop of the Week! 🧠💡 In this week’s Figma workshop, our interns learned to use Figma and crafted sleek and interactive app interfaces from scratch. 💻🎨 Curious about what’s coming next? Stay tuned for next week’s post!🌟🛠️

Our brilliant interns just wrapped up another Workshop of the Week!! This week, they explored the essentials of Adobe Illustrator and made their personal versions of famous brand logos. 😉🌟

Curious to see what they’ll create next? Stick around for our upcoming Workshop of the Week! 🌟🔧

Check out what our amazing interns made during our UX Foundations workshop!🔥🔥

This week, the interns applied their designs skills into making a low-fidelity framework of an app interface that ensured the best user experience. 🧐🤳

Come back next week to see what else the interns make at our next Workshop of the Week! 🌟🌟

Last, but not least, Team Missed Connections!

Dora Liao (ENG ’28) loves cafe hopping, running, and true crime podcasts ☕️🏃. Katherine Wu (CDS ’28) loves thrifting, concerts, and pickleball 🎤. Su Andy Cheng (CDS ’26) enjoys the crime-solving shows Psych, Sherlock, and Brooklyn 99 🕵. Lastly, Trevor Stellmach (CAS ’28) loves reading, running, and concerts 📖🏃!

Missed Connections is a social media app aimed to help with student loneliness by encouraging meaningful connections.

Stick around to not miss the amazing work Team Missed Connections will make! 💫😉