Portfolio.

Projects that I have worked on dating back from 2008, most of which are class projects from my studies at UCSD. Currently at Mitchell, I work on designs for enterprise web, desktop, and mobile applications. My design process involves user research, wireframing and prototyping, and usability testing.

Applications and web

WorkCenter is a large, modular, end-to-end physical damage claims web application suite for insurance carriers. Each module targets different user roles who are involved at the various stages of a collision claim's lifecycle. I was the primary interaction designer for all of WorkCenter from 2009 to 2011.

WorkCenter Mobile is an iPhone application designed to support field estimators in their day-to-day tasks. An estimator can quickly access his assignments, find directions to the vehicle location, contact the vehicle owner, update the assignment status, add notes, and attach vehicle photos all from his movile device.

Coursework

Vislation is a conceptual mobile device that translates foreign characters in realtime. The UI was designed to be minimalistic and unobtrusive with a simplistic navigation scheme to promote the behavior of translating objects on the fly. I built the final computer prototype using HTML/CSS and JavaScript.

Friend Mapper was a project that focused on interaction architectures, programming techniques, and cognitive and computational principles for designing effective systems. This web mashup application mapped out the user's Facebook friends and top-rated restaurants in the respective cities utilizing the Facebook, Google Maps, and Yelp APIs.

This was a redesign project of the old Indiana University of Bloomington website, where I explored the constraints and freedoms involved in establishing a strong information architecture. The design process included heuristic review, user research, and comparative analysis. Significant improvements were made to the site's consistency, visibility, and recognition. Several of the changes included establishing a consistent layout throughout the site, strong visual indicators of hyperlinks, and overall improvements to aesthetics.

Craft Origami is a web portal that targets an online origami community. The focus on this project was on the creation of strong information architecture. The project deliverables included fully designed primary pages and the site's content inventory.

This project explored the various phases of rapid contextual design from contextual inquiry to paper prototyping and usability testing. I redesigned the UCSD Experimetrix website, improving the workflow for students when finding and signing up for experiments. The project deliverable was a digital prototype that included our finalized, data-driven design implementations.