Air Partners
Empowering near-airport communities of East Boston with real- time air quality data.
My design work:
- User interviews and persona creation
- In-person and virtual user testing
- Paper and digital UI prototyping
The technical stuff:
- Front-end development using ReactJS
- Hybrid Android app development
- Firebase hosting, realtime database, and cloud functions
- Internationalization (i18n) and accessibility
Trusted
As a team of four, we prototyped a will creation UI with unique solutions for large amounts of varied and non-linear data entry.
Why making a will is tough:
- The decisions are incredibly emotional
- Each persons concerns are very unique
Design techniques practiced:
- Visual design concepts (e.g. affordances)
- Paper and digital UI prototyping
- Heuristic evaluations and cognitive walk-throughs
- Flexibility for power users
- Usability studies and A/B testing
The Drag Lab Cooperative
Our team created a scaled mock-up of a collaborative performance space, custom tailored to the world of gender performers.
Project phases:
- Persona creation
- Concept ideation
- Design proposal
Design techniques applied:
- Journey mapping
- Rapid paper prototyping with users
Olin Electric Motorsports
OEM is an electric vehicle competition team. During my three years on leadership, I led user-focused, iterative re-design and evaluation of our practices which improved retention of students who are not cisgender males.
2016 stats:
- 0 female PMs in team history
- 1 female member in a leadership role
- 3 female members retained through competition
2020 stats:
- 3rd female PM just assumed her role
- 6 female members in leadership roles
- 15 female members retained through competition
Alexa Personal Photos
On the Alexa personal photos team, I prototyped several options to compare UX for a new feature.
Criteria:
- Customer transparency
- UPL (user-perceived latency)
- Reliability
What I did (without too much detail):
- Headless browser automation using Selenium
- Authored 2-pager detailing UX comparisons of rapid software prototyping based on above criteria
Gener8
Among many electrical engineering projects at this consulting firm, I met directly with our customers to iteratively improve our software UX.
Major projects:
- Test software development for biological lab devices
- Testing and repair of time-of-flight cameras
- High efficieny inductive sterilizer
Customer needs for test software:
- Customization
- Key metrics