Design Expo is a forum where student teams from top design institutions showcase their prototype interaction-design ideas. The following schools presented their designs during the 2012 Design Expo, held during Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012.

• Carnegie Mellon: Peter Scupelli, Bruce Hanington, Priscilla Mok, Loretta Neal, Somya Jampala
• Umeå University: Shivanjali Tomar, Siri Johansson
• Royal College of Art: James Auger, Neil Usher, Shing Tat Chung
• Delft University: Maarten Karremans, Jaap Rutten, Segourney Muntslag, Iris Ploum, Natalia Papadopoulou, Stella Boess
• Tsinghua University: Xu Duanduan, Xia Qing, Lin Xu, Ji Yu, Zhiyong Fu
• Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial: Elianne Jobim, Andrea Pech, Marina Almeida, Camila Martins, Val de Castro, Sergio Boiteux, Pedro Herzog
• University of Washington: Axel Roesler, Hanne Trafnik, Adam Rule, Axel Roester, Katie Suskin, Neil Rhoades

Critic Panel: Bill Buxton, Mike Kasprow, Faris Yakob