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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 […]

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 […]

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Implementing UX into Hackathons

Goal for this project: Understand problems faced by two different organizations and work together with other academics to tackle real world problems. Time frame:  1 day. One of the cool things about my past conference experiences has definitely been what is known as #CHI4Good. In this experience, people from around the world come together at […]