- Product Designer for playful and educational experiences

Category: Other

Diversant – Savings Tracker App

Posted: May 3, 2017-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: UI/UX/Product Design, Other

I worked as part of a team to design a iOS/Android app to help people develop better savings habits, to help insure a financially stable future. My role in the project was mainly in UX and the system to help users allocate their earnings among all of the different expenses that they needed to address. We [...]

Read more »

Couchsurfing – Local Community

Posted: March 28, 2016-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: UI/UX/Product Design, Other

A quick project to strengthen the commumnity at Couchsurfing so that users could share events and answer each other's questions. I created wireframes to show events and discussions.

Read more »

O’Reilly Media – Effective Sketching for UX Design

Posted: October 28, 2015-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: UI/UX/Product Design, Other

Effective sketching is a hands-on learned craft. I worked with Greg Nudelman (www.designcaffeine.com) to create a set of exercises to help develop skills in using sketching on paper and whiteboards for better communication. In the videos, we cover: Sketching on Post-it notes and using them for storyboarding and wireframing The elements of graphic storytelling: Things, people, [...]

Read more »

Silicon Valley Innovation Center – Prototyping Class

Posted: August 6, 2015-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: UI/UX/Product Design, Other

I was asked to teach prototyping at the Silicon Valley Innovation Center to a group of students visiting from Astana, Kazakhstan - the students had so many different ideas that they wanted to test out! Everything from designing semi-trucks, to smartphone holders, to footwear. Storyboarding is a great way to get a team on the [...]

Read more »

UI/UX Design – Foodfriend App

Posted: November 7, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: UI/UX/Product Design, Other-Tags: UI/UX, drawings. storyboards

I have been working on more UI/UX design projects, including “Foodfriend” – a meal sharing mobile app. I started with some research, talking with target user groups about their needs – it really helped me to focus the project! Storyboards were drawn for a user interface design project for a Coursera course, where I tried [...]

Read more »

UI/UX Design – iPhone Daredevil

Posted: November 7, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: UI/UX/Product Design, Other-Tags: drawings, storyboards, UI/UX

I’ve been working on more UI/UX designs lately – including this one for an app that lets people test the limits of their iPhones – by gauging the maximum deceleration numbers that users can achieve. (I know… it would result in lots of broken phones, but it was a fun idea for an exercise.)

Read more »