Portfolio
Suit Up!
Course: Advanced Project and Social Computing Design
Teammates: Mike Harmala, Kerry Kao, Kate Maher
Skills: User interviews, survey, interaction design, prototyping, HTML, CSS, jQuery
Suit Up! is a proof-of-concept fashion social platform intended to appeal to a broad range of users, including those who might not label themselves as fashion-conscious. Users can add, browse, rate and bookmark articles of clothing in addition to following the activity of other users with similar tastes. The system provides personalized clothing recommendations based on demographic information such as age, body type and location, in addition to expressed clothing preferences.
Most work was done collaboratively; I was especially involved in developing the initial high level concept, designing the recommender system and implementing the DirectedEdge and ShopStyle integration.
Spring 2010
Career Transitions
Client: Gale Cengage
Course: Evaluation of Systems and Services
Teammates: Samantha Lee, Ari Parnes, Bo Wang
Skills: Interaction mapping, user interviews, surveying, comparative analysis, heuristic evaluation, usability testing
Career Transitions is a career planning tool intended for use in public libraries. CT takes users through the step-by-step process of exploring alternative careers, including an interest assessment, a resume builder, employment outlook and educational qualification requirement data, and an integrated job search engine. Our team was responsible for delivering an interaction map of the entire application, and reports evaluating the user experience of the product using a number of methods.
Spring 2010
Nextext
Course: Interaction and Interface Design
Client: Perry Samson, co-founder of the Weather Underground
Teammates: Derek Blancey, Amanda Kosater, Matt Scheinerman, Ari Parnes
Skills: contextual inquiry, personas & scenarios, interaction design, prototyping, HTML/CSS, jQuery
Awards: 1st place Community Information Award at SI expoSItion poster session
Our client approached us with the challenge of designing an electronic textbook interface. After speaking with current college students, we found that they did not rely solely on their textbooks. Instead, they used textbooks in conjunction with lecture slides, notes, problem sets and web resources. In response, we designed a unified workspace for engaging with these otherwise disparate materials. Students can view materials side by side, annotate them in a variety of ways, and combine elements from multiple resources into their notebook. The users we tested were enthusiatic about our prototype. Our design is being integrated into the web-based learning environment that our client is currently developing.
Most work was done collaboratively; I lead the contextual inquiry and prototype development stages of the project.
Fall 2009
Snapshot History
Client: Mozilla Design Challenge
Skills: interaction design, prototyping
"Browsing History — How can we make sense of this rich source of data and how do we best present this data to the user?" – Mozilla Design Challenge brief
In response to this prompt, I created a simple design for reviewing browser history inspired by photo management applications. Users can visually scan their browser history in combination with full text search of all of the pages they have visited.
Fall 2009
College Scholarships
Client: Office of the Dean of Students in the College
Skills: design, wireframing, HTML/CSS, jQuery
As an Associate Site Developer at the University of Chicago Web Services, I worked closely with College staff to revamp the College's scholarships and fellowships database web site. I customized the standard University website template to meet the needs of the College Scholarships office and migrated existing content. I also created wireframes and functional specifications to demonstrate the updated rules for displaying search result and new "area of interest" tagging functionality requested by College Scholarships staff.
Spring 2009
Banner Course Search Evaluation
Teammates: James Stout, Ian Spector, Cameron Jue
Skills: usability testing, interaction design, prototyping, HTML/CSS
For CG116: Human Factors, my team and I used the concepts covered in our course to evaluate the course search functionality of Banner, a student information system which had recently been implemented at Brown. Based on the result of our usability tests, we redesigned the search and results page interfaces. We created high fidelity prototype of our design using HTML, CSS and javascript.
Spring 2007
Web design odds and ends
Client: Various
Skills: Design, HTML/CSS, Photoshop
Center for Digital Initiatives
I created several digital collection homepages. These involved working with the provided Brown University web template and creating visually compelling collages with images drawn from each collection.
Real Good Not Feel Good
A "single-serving" web site for Martin Fisher and Kevin Starr's guide to high-impact philanthropy, "Real Good, Not Feel Good."
Shadows at Dawn
Created while a student technology assistant at Brown University's ITG, this is a companion website to Professor Karl Jacoby's recently published book, rexamining the Camp Grant massacre of 1871.
QubeFactor
A design for a fellow student at Brown that was never fully implemented.
2007 - 2009
Toaster
Teammates: Mike Solomon
Skills: interaction design
Mike wanted to practice with Ruby, and I wanted to design the minimalistic blog client of my dreams. Toaster was the result of our efforts. This was the first time I had to effectively communicate my ideas to a developer, and also when I first appreciated the ease of HTML and CSS compared to coding GUIs for desktop applications.
Summer 2005