Students and graduate in competition for UX Design Awards

Projects created by MSc User Experience Engineering students and a graduate have been nominated for the New Talent category.

Three projects from the current cohort of MSc User Experience Engineering students have been nominated in the New Talent category of the Autumn 2025 UX Design Awards. Anamol Rajbhandari, a 2023 graduate of the MSc User Experience Engineering programme, is also amongst the nominees in the New Talent category. 

Three projects by MSc User Experience Engineering students nominated  

The three projects were developed as part of the Applied UX Topics and Guest Lectures module, a practice-led module that guides students through a real-world UX design process and which culminates in submissions to the awards. 

Dr Rabail Tahir, Lecturer in UX Engineering in the Department of Computing, said, “In our Applied UX Topics and Guest Lectures module, students work in teams to develop socially impactful design concepts in response to real challenges, guided by weekly industry guest speakers and hands-on seminar sessions. Working on these submissions gives students a true-to-life experience of UX practice, following a complete design process from identifying user needs to prototyping, testing, and refinement.”

• Pawfect

  Team: Evelyn Chen, Shirley Hsieh, Qinlin Yin, Jiaqi Dong, YiChing Chen, Caroline Peng

  Pawfect is an AI-powered pet adoption platform which matches shelter animals with prospective adopters based on behavioural patterns and personality compatibility.

• VitaPaw

  Team: Hanting Zhao, Muhua Qin, Yijin Zhang, Yitong Mo, Yushi Sun, Yu Hu 

  VitaPaw offers cat owners an AI-supported solution for health monitoring which leverages camera input and cloud-based AI analysis to monitor cats’ physiological signals.  

• ReSearch AI

  Team: Maysan Nirlo, Aarti Sapkal, Mihran Siddiqui, Joelson Leal, Annie Pinson, Sanjana Shah   

  ReSearch AI is an app that delivers bite-sized insights from research papers in a scrollable format, transforming research discovery through micro-learning.

Dr Rabail Tahir added, "The UX Design Awards are one of the few international competitions dedicated specifically to user experience, with a strong emphasis on real-world impact."

Graduate Anamol Rajbhandari nominated for Finding People  

Anamol has been nominated for his community-focused project, Finding People. The app helps locate missing people by mobilising volunteers, turning their phones into search tools. It allows users to log sightings of missing persons and join location-based missions.  

Anamol came up with the idea for Finding People during his graduate studies at Goldsmiths. 

Anamol said, “Unlike many courses that just teach standard design thinking frameworks, our programme focused on fundamental principles and real user needs. We even used tools like EEG headsets and eye-tracking in the UX lab. That focus on understanding people, not just pushing pixels, became almost instinctive for me and directly influenced Finding People.” 

Nominated projects