{"id":24360,"date":"2022-05-20T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/2022\/05\/20\/when-graphic-design-meets-big-tech-red-hat-sponsored-studio-tackles-autonomous-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:45:24","slug":"when-graphic-design-meets-big-tech-red-hat-sponsored-studio-tackles-autonomous-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/2022\/05\/20\/when-graphic-design-meets-big-tech-red-hat-sponsored-studio-tackles-autonomous-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"When Graphic Design Meets Big Tech: Red Hat Sponsored Studio Tackles Autonomous Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If you were to visit Allred Gallery on the College of Design\u2019s campus during the fall semester of 2021, it\u2019s entirely possible that you would have seen the room\u2019s large windows covered in marker and post-it notes. And, if you read the contents of those notes out of context, you may have been curious as to why design students are musing over scribbles that read \u201cno privacy,\u201d \u201ctracking -> stalking,\u201d and \u201cenviro\/doomsday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These notes are not from an outline of a dystopian television series \u2013 they\u2019re the first steps in designing an accessible user interface for autonomous vehicles, or AVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AVs have seen a significant increase in interest and development over the past decades. Personal vehicles have begun to incorporate autonomous features such as parking and lane-keeping assistance, as well as fully automated systems such as braking, steering and acceleration. NC State even launched its own driverless shuttle on Centennial Campus in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The current technology still is not perfect, nor is it widely accessible. But Professor Helen Armstrong\u2019s 400-level graphic design studio has tasked students with designing for the AV experience in the near future with a wider audience in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe projects taught in this studio are meant to challenge these students and to be extremely future-facing,\u201d says Armstrong. \u201cThere are endless applications for software in an autonomous vehicle. That kind of access to experience and very discipline-specific knowledge would not be as attainable without an industry partner like Red Hat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n