CLASS PROJECTS

 

iBuyRight: Social Responsibility Barcode Project

 

top

Recipient of the 2006 James R. Chen award for Most Outstanding Project in the Social Mobility Track
iBuyRight is a consumer application that displays social and environmental information about a product on the cell phone. After scanning in the bar code, the application retrieves the relevant information from a social and environmental issues database and displays it on the screen in an easy-to-read format.

By turning the phone into an access point for product information at the point of purchase, this application facilitates informed purchasing. This project is my Master's Final Project.

 

Mobile Shopper Application Prototype

    

 

top

 

A mobile prototype built with Python for Symbian OS and PHP which also leverages Yahoo and Amazon web services. This prototype was developed for a week-long mobile prototyping workshop.

UFOVis

 

top

A visualization of UFO sighting data that improves analysis by making it easier to find overall patterns.

This project, for the Information Visualization class, included needs assessment, database design, user testing and prototyping using the Yahoo! Maps Flash API.

 

Collaborative Bargains Database Project

top

 

An online bargains aggregator, Collaborative Bargains invites users to post bargains they find online and search for bargains that others have posted.

This was a project for my Database Design & Development class. The prototype was built in PHP and MySQL.

FilterFeeder

top

 

This application filters your RSS feed subscriptions by keywords. By selecting subjects that you are interested in, you can either filter your feeds by that word or make sure that none of your feeds contain that subject.

This rough prototype was built using the smallx pipeline, RSS, XSLT and simple JSP, for the XML & Related Technologies class.

Artery: Mobile phone art tour application

 

ARTery is an idea for a mobile application that would allow users to upload photos of public art and tag them for later use as part of a public art tour of San Francisco.

To develop this idea further, we created personas, scenarios and storyboards. We also built a faceted metadata framework using (Protege) that would enable the tagging of these photos.

top

 

WORK PORTFOLIO

 

Institute for International Studies

Events Database Application

top

I was hired to conduct usability testing on this events database application system for the UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies (IIS).

Based on user feedback, I am implementing changes in PHP/MySQL that will improve ease-of-use and make the management of IIS events more efficient.

 

Center for Social Services Research

 

top

 The goal of this redesign was to improve accessibity of the Center's many publications and reports.
    The website redesign included:
  • Information architecture - content survey and analysis, server log analysis, bringing consistency to the organization and multiple navigation paths
  • Implementation in ASP (VBScript) turning hard-coded HTML into dynamic pages
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Design and implementation of a new data production process incorporating SAS, XML, XSL

International Center in New York:

top

 The goal of this redesign was to help recruit potential volunteers, students, and donors as well as communicate Center news to current members.
    This website redesign process included:
  • Content analysis and improvements to the information architecture - identified main audiences, proposed layout
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Concerted newsletter layout redesign

 

Wired Digital / Terra Lycos:

Hotbot

Lycos Music

Webmonkey

 

As a web developer working on these high-traffic Terra Lycos (Wired Digital) online properties, I built out the UIs according to design mockups.

I worked with engineers, web designers, product managers and quality assurance developers to ensure that these features were built on-time and to specifications.

 

top