User Experience Design
I have recently worked as part of a team to develop an application for Ford and Microsoft. We built an application that functions on Android phones and the dashboard of a custom made Ford Fiesta. Please view the slides to the left, which will illustrates the stages of the project, from whiteboarding to low fi prototyping to hi fi prototypes. For more information, head over to EnRoute's website. There, you can find more information on all aspects of the project.
I was part of a team tasked with creating a digital textbook. We conducted a series of tasks, including contextual inquiry, user interviews, scenarios and personas, low fi prototyping and high fi prototyping. Within five months, we had a working prototype, that can be accessed here. The slides on the left illustrate the final prototype, the low fi mockup, the affinity wall the team created, and one of the personas we created to help us understand our users better. For more information on the project in general, please go here.
I undertook an evaluation of the University of Michigan Law Library's website. Working in a team, we conducted user interviews, heuristic evaluations, surveyed users, and used comparative evaluations. We created interaction maps, to understand the information architecture of the website, and created personas and scenarios to better understand the user. Through the use of these tools, we evaluated the usability of the website and made a series of suggestions to the law library IT staff. You can see some screenshots of the methods we used to evaluate the law library website in the slides on the left, namely, personas, surveys, and user testing.