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Introduction to Typography

User Experience & Interaction Design for AR/VR/MR/XR

Use SurveyMonkey to Create a Survey and Analyze Results

UX Writing Microcredential

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

Intro to AR/VR/MR/XR: Technologies, Applications & Issues

Data-Driven Design

Ideas from the History of Graphic Design

Mastering the essential skills of UX writing, resulting in a powerful toolkit to create accessible, accurate, and inclusive content across complex product experiences.

Wrote a thesis that was near & dear to my heart: exploratory design approaches + engineering education = student-led futures thinking and learning opportunities \[[1](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&tzom=240&user=q6c6ENUAAAAJ&citation_for_view=q6c6ENUAAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC)\]

Led extensive qualitative research and scoping reviews on COVID-19 projects and devices, investigating the information practices surrounding medical device development and clinical studies.

TEDA

Accessibility

Iteratively co-designed a futures-thinking workshop for postsecondary students with foresight experts. Partnered with University of Toronto for a proposed dry run (parked due to COVID).

Undiscipline

Prototyped a 4-piece youth homelessness intervention, leading the design of research artifacts to provide a voice for our youth consultants.

Guiding Youth Home

Prototyped, defined game mechanics, and iteratively built a tabletop game to study decision-making research and processes for software engineering projects (focusing on intertemporal judgement, time-based payoffs, and technical debt).

Undecided

A proof-of-concept, lightweight, data exploration tool for emergency epidemic datasets.

Abstract Data Explorer

Providing resume & portfolio reviews and career advice for design students at Humber College

Industry Mentor

Co-led the design & inclusive research of an in-school solution to tackle youth homelessness \[[1](https://www.bridgeable.com/designership_posts/)\]

Service designer

Designed & shipped \*the\* pharmacy intake system (now used by healthcare giants e.g. Rexall, Shoppers, etc.) to facilitate the rollout of COVID vaccines. Within a few months, our solution allowed 7M+ Canadians to access care during the pandemic!

Founding designer

Defined best practice guidelines on UX in hybrid environments (e.g. the Metaverse, IoT and XR environments)

Design researcher

Co-leading the first transformation work for the survey analysis experience at SVMK in 25 years.

Product designer

* Designed & shipped a lightweight data analysis portal during the Ebola crisis

* Awarded a $4500 NSERC grant for increasing infectious disease awareness in the mobile app space

UX engineer

Service Designer

* Shipped a high-impact browser extension workflow to bring Loopio where you are \[[1](https://loopio.com/blog/sales-knowledge/)\]

* Optimized review workflows with accurate usage tracking \[[2](https://support.loopio.com/hc/en-us/articles/12427880662803-Is-My-Library-Usage-Tracked-When-I-Copy-Answer-Text-From-a-Library-Entry)\] - a number of small tweaks that yielded rave reviews + singlehandedly boosted NPS scores in 2022

* Reduced internal overhead when onboarding enterprise customers by automating the import of styled content

* Led a11y design & education initiatives \[[3](https://medium.com/loopio-tech/how-were-making-loopio-a-more-accessible-product-486482dbdaa5)\]

* Researched inclusive design principles for individuals with intellectual & developmental disorders (IDDs)

* Designed a tabletop game to study time-based decisions in software engineering \[[1](https://ppig.org/papers/2020-ppig-31st-becker/)\]

* Investigated the role of information in grassroots PPE creation & delivery during COVID (TEDA) \[[2](https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-mobilize-resources-produce-equipment-health-care-workers)\]

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