Designer taking Data Science courses
These are my noteboooks and stuff along with my experiences.
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Designing with Data Notes
Designing and data are two halves of the equation Design helps improve data quality and experiments with users Data helps defend design decisions, creates metrics and measure effects towards goals Design doesn’t come just from instincts alone The reason designers fear data: Data undermines and undervalues the designer’s intuition and experience Data stifles creativity and…
Covid-19 volunteering
About a month ago, I was informed about Helpforcovid.com, a website where Covid-19 projects, dedicated to different problems that arose from the pandemic, were trying to recruit volunteers. Anything from co-ordinating groceries and help for at-risk populations such as the elderly to co-ordinating supply logistics for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in hospitals were seeking volunteers. I…
Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative
Last summer, I had the privilege to work and contribute back to the city of Baltimore in a meaningful way. I worked as a web designer for the Baltimore Ev Background: I joined the Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative as a Web Designer. My main responsibilities were to produce infographics, branding, and re-design the website to…
Creating an icon set for an online course
I recently created a icon set to go along with the course I was developing, which was about communicating as a designer or researcher. When I was initially coming up with the course, I realized that I would need to have graphics for the amount of information that I was hoping to convey within the…
SEER*EXPLORER: Incorporating UX into a Healthcare tool
Goal of the project: Re-design SEER*Explorer, a research tool for visualizing cancer statistic data, to be usable to wider audiences. In specific, cancer patients, journalists, and newer cancer researchers. In addition, address both new and existing usability issues that hindered task completion for this tool. Challenges for the project: First, was that I did not…
Usability evaluation and redesign of two websites
One of the ongoing projects that I have been a part of at NCI has been the revision of two websites, seer.cancer.gov and surveillance.cancer.gov, for two different purposes. For the seer.cancer.gov, the purpose has been to make sure the user is able to find relevant information about our branch as well as identifying current and…
Annual Report to the Nation
One of the tasks that I took up during my usability fellowship with NCI was to work closely with the health communications team in our annual report to the nation. This is a report we release to the general public through both our existing website as well as social media such as Twitter. As this…
Icon set
One of the projects that I worked on with the Surveillance Research Program (SRP) required me to go through the process of creating an icon set. While I had created icon sets as part of a class, this was the first time working with a client. As a result, there were a number of key…
Hierarchical Task Analysis
One of the steps that was necessary in order to work through the telestration project was the creation of a Hierarchical Task Analysis. This was necessary after understanding the types of communication breakdowns that occurred within laparoscopic surgery. After watching recorded video of laparoscopic surgery, I then created a number of tasks based on the…