Ross Business School Usability Study
- Website:
- Project Ross
- Client:
- Michigan Ross School of Business
- Responsibilities:
- Interaction Map Creation, Persona and Scenario Lead, Survey and Usability Test Designer, Analysis and Recommendations, Copywriting, Presentation
- Deliverables:
- Interaction Map, Usability and UX Research Reports and Presentation
At the University of Michigan School of Information, I worked on a team project for SI 622: Evaluation of Systems and Services for the Michigan Ross School of Business, on the evaluation and analysis of their public site, in a project we called Project Ross. I worked with my team in conducting extensive usability evaluation and testing, [...]
Project Peregrine Contextual Design
- Website:
- Project Peregrine
- Client:
- CHI 2010 Interaction Design Student Competition, SI expoSItion 2010 Student Competition
- Responsibilities:
- Concept, UX Research Lead, Interface Design, Lo-Fi Prototyping, Usability Testing, Presentations, All Website Writing and Copywriting
- Deliverables:
- Hi-Fi Prototype, Short Paper, Poster and Project Website
At the University of Michigan School of Information, I worked on a team project for SI 682: Interface and Interaction Design called Project Peregrine. We choose to develop and create a prototype for a mobile social walking system through interest matching for submission in the CHI 2010 Interaction Design Student Competition, using the Contextual Design [...]
Usable Business Card Research/Design
- Deliverables:
- Vertical Format Business Card
One of my favorite side projects was the design of my business card, which was initially spurred by a course assignment at the University of Michigan School of Information, SI 520: Graphic Design. I decided that rather than simply designing a conventional card, I would approach the business card as a UX problem, understand the ideal [...]
- Results:
- LifeHacker Article
Graphic Design Work
- Client:
- SI 520: Graphic Design
- Responsibilities:
- Graduate Student
- Deliverables:
- Many Print and Digital Projects, including Website Mockups, Bookmarks and Booklets, Business Cards, Presentation and Informative Posters
At the University of Michigan School of Information, I took SI 520: Graphic Design, in which I learned the principles of graphic design, such as color theory, grid use, typography, the rule of three, web, print, and postage standards, and the use of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Bridge. I also created a variety of [...]
Music Sampling Exploratory Analysis
- Website:
- Project In The Mix
- Client:
- Exploratory Data Analysis Course Project
- Responsibilities:
- Data Collection, Quick Plotting, Factorization, Multi-Layer Factorization, Exploration, Publication-Ready Graphics
- Deliverables:
- Exploratory Data Analyses, Publication-Ready Graphics, and Project Website
Complete project site w/process, code, and visualizations available here While at the University of Michigan School of Information, I performed an extensive exploratory data analysis project on hip-hop and rap music sampling behaviors, called Project In The Mix, for SI 618: Exploratory Data Analysis. As music sampling is a very important and current hot button [...]
MemCatch User Interface Design
- Client:
- MemCatch LLC
- Responsibilities:
- User Interace Designer Intern
- Deliverables:
- Clickable, Functional Prototypes, Web-Ready Graphics, Written Copy
While at the University of Michigan School of Information, I interned for a local startup, MemCatch LLC, as a User Interface Intern. It was a particularly interesting position, as when I came in (along with another intern), MemCatch had developed the framework and very basic UI for a “collaborative knowledgebase”, a very unique concept centered [...]
Discourse Emotion Analysis
- Website:
- Pedagogical Discourse Project
- Client:
- USC Information Sciences Institute
- Responsibilities:
- Emotion Act Creation, Annotator, Statistical Analysis, Publication Copywriting
- Deliverables:
- Emotion Tagging System, Annotated Corpus, Two Publications and Presentation
I worked on the Pedagogical Discourse Project at the USC Information Sciences Institute in an internship capacity for several years, first as an unpaid undergraduate intern, and after my graduation as a paid intern. The purpose of the project is to develop methods for scaffolding and analyzing student online discussion boards in order to facilitate learning through [...]
- Results:
- Presented at the Workshop on Computational Models for Natural Argument, Int’l Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI), 2009, and at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2010
FSLd: fMRI Analysis and GUI
- Client:
- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
- Responsibilities:
- Analysis/Reimplimentation of SPM, Interface Design
- Deliverables:
- Functional Alpha of Statistical Analysis and GUI, Presentation and Writeup
While at UCLA, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant for the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior in re-implementing a statistical analysis package for fMRI data, with several added analysis features. The original analysis package, SPMd, is a toolset for analysis of fMRI statistics and data for the SPM analysis package. The professor [...]
