Current Work

As of June 2013, I will be doing undergraduate research with Professor Kirsh at UC San Diego for a special project.

Projects

As a supplement to my to resume I've created this site to show some of my work. I've selected some of my previous work that highlights my accomplishments and skills.

Active Reading

Active Reading Gestures was a project for my seminar on Novel Interaction Techniques. Using previous research done by my partner, we created a prototype of a system that was based on natural reading gestures. The system was based on gestures people make when reading or manipulating documents. We designed a system that would cooperate with the way people already interacted with documents. I prototyped our system as a video. The following video is shown as a supplement alongside a presentation. A more detailed description of the system is available in our paper.

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Read#: A System for Active Reading

Read# (pronounced "Read Sharp") is a new system for document interaction and active reading activities. Read# allows for digital interactions synchronously with paper. The system allows a computer to be invisibly integrated into the reading environment and naturally track and record a reader’s gestures while minimizing the number of deliberate actions a user needs to make to annotate and comprehend a piece of reading. Read# aims to introduce the advantages of digital documents to the realm of physical documents. A video demo is available on YouTube and the research paper is available here.

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Cognitive Design - "Zodiac"

A 6 unit project-based course, Cognitive Design Studio was one of the most fulfilling projects I have been a part of. Over the course of the project, I performed contextual interviews, prototype interviews, and also created personas, storyboards, affinity diagrams, work models, and consolidated sequence models. Our project’s goal was to create a new and more efficient way for people to interact with tabs in their browsers. Interviewing almost 20 subjects, we analyzed the data to find habits, shortcuts, breakdowns, and any interesting observations to drive our design. We reiterated our design after our prototype interviews and presented our final project after 6 weeks of research.

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Il Covo

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In my “Practicum for Professional Web Design Course” I lead my team in designing a website for a local restaurant, Il Covo. At first we interviewed potential users to see what their needs were in restaurant and lounge websites and also interviewed the business owners to see what their needs and requirements were in terms of both functionality and aesthetics. Adhering to the aesthetic guidelines we had set, we created a style guide and a creative brief for our client who reviewed and then elaborated on their needs. Some of the features we wanted to implement were not the price range of our client yet, so we also devised a backup plan. Upon review, our client decided not to implement the reservation system we had recommended. We developed the site according to the guides we had set and our users’ needs. The client has plans to implement the site, for now it is available here.

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Dimp.ly

Dimp.ly was a project for HCI Programming Studio. After holding a few contextual interviews, we identified user needs and problems with the current Dropbox photo gallery. I led the UX team to perform these interviews while designing and developing the front-end. We designed and created the application in 5 weeks, which received positive feedback from the professor and was voted best project. However, the site is currently not fully functional until further notice.

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Marcfam

While working at Social Print Studio, one of the largest projects I worked on was for Marc Jacobs International. For the holiday season, the client wanted to create an interactive image gallery that showed all the photos on instagram with the hashtag "#marcfam." I was on the design team and so I created mockups of the site and the interactions on Adobe Illustrator which the developers implemented. The site is still live at marcfam.marcjacobs.com. Project support was discontinued after Spring 2012.

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Heuristic Evaluation

I approached the Virtual Student Foreign Service (an initiative of the eDiplomacy office of the Department of State) to do a full usability evaluation when I heard they were looking for usability problems in their interface. Using Nielsen's heuristic evaluation method, I compiled the entire report and submitted it to the head of the program, I recieved valuable feedback regarding my performance in return.

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dblcam

While interning for Social Print Studio, I created multiple mockups of the web interface for the iOS application dblcam, which took one diptych picture from both iPhone cameras simultaneously. The web interface would allow the user to view the photos and flip the view to see the other side or see them side by side. Unfortunately this project was not finished during the duration of my internship.

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Sushi Zine

For “Usability and Information Architecture” my team took all the skills we had learned and refined over the course to create a site with all the resources related to Sushi. We performed user interviews to first plan out what resources users required. Afterwards, we created wireframes and listed all the resources in a content inventory. To present the resources, we rapidly developed the wireframes into a fully functional site. The site is available here.

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ULouisiana

Once again for "Usability and Information Architecture," my team and I evaluated the usability on the current University of Louisiana page. Together, we compiled a usability evaluation report. Taking this evaluation into consideration as well as other problems we noticed on the page, we redesigned the page.[Note, this page does not function, it is only meant as a representation of how to better organize the page.]