Looking for my next venture to grow as a UX/UI designer
About
Using usability design principles to design beautiful, meaningful, human-centered products to bring positive social change
Projects
Pillar Housing is a feedback management platform specifically designed for low-income housing residences to keep a concrete record of building issues and tenancy complaints in order to create more accountability from non-profits and organizations to their tenants and workers. I researched, wireframed, prototyped, tested, and iterated this product throughout my 12-week diploma program at BrainStation. A full case study is available on my portfolio.
A modern streaming solution for the client to capture younger audience markets by curating streaming packages perfectly customized to the viewer's preferences. TELUS Bubble is a fun, interactive interface to an otherwise mundane and potentially overwhelming task of streaming service channel and package selection. This project was researched, ideated, produced, and developed within a 24-hour hackathon in collaboration with 2 UX designers and 3 web developers.
My ideal eCommerce platform, showcasing my hand-made products as well as my personality while exploring novel and exciting interaction design. Through the UI Design Certificate program with BrainStation, I completed competitive analysis, a brand moodboard, style guidelines, wireframes, and a high fidelity prototype.
Work Experience
Collaborated with store owner to transfer current menu items alongside new menu items from independently physical menus to newly designed online menus, continually updating content and designs to enable smooth customer ordering and dining experience
Combat fast fashion by up-cycling 45+ pieces of clothing through alteration, screen printing, and embroidery. Increase exposure to 800 Instagram followers, 10k Etsy store views, and 120 Etsy store sales through online advertisements and vending at 5 in-person craft markets
• Selected from the previous cohort of 8 based on high achievement, understanding of topics, excellence in skills, and interpersonal emotional awareness
• Assist 12 students in their personal learning journey in progressive 1-on-1 mentorships
• Evaluate student projects and deliverables with strong attention to detail in order to provide live presentation comments and in-depth design feedback in order to develop student design skills and performance
• Lead daily stand-up meetings, delivering presentation content for tips, industry standards, and best practices
Coached and directed students with a range of experience with English to speak more fluently and confidently. Evaluated in detail student English ability in vocabulary, grammar, fluency, and pronunciation Authored detailed feedback reports after every tutoring session to provide further assistance in paraphrasing and formal speech. Achieved and maintained a 4.5 star average rating and positive feedback from students for effectiveness, flexibility, and friendliness. Encouraged and empowered students in their continued English speaking journey, not just in their technical ability. Facilitated weekly lessons with 2-3 regular students, and 1-2 drop-in students.
Championed leadership role in a department of 13 members through intentional team relationships, the direction of individual daily tasks, dedication to detail and organization, and expertise in company operating systems and policies. Acquired 30 personal shoppers by exhibiting openness, empathy, intentionality to help, and expertise in Nike and third-party product knowledge.
Handled store efficiency in serving hundreds of customers per day by monitoring inventory, production, and sales, and training, supervising, and leading staff. Accelerated customer flow during COVID-safe contactless service through designing and optimizing in-store signage and menus.
Volunteering
As a part of my Cognitive Systems capstone course, I worked under Dr. Molly Babel to create software to clean, organize, manipulate, and analyze data from the lab's large database of linguistic background questionnaire responses. We tested the accuracy and reliability of this tool by replicating a study to quantify bilingualism through the measure of entropy, applying their methodology to the newly accessible data. After this capstone project, I continue to aid in the completion of various lab tasks as well as designing any graphic designs needed to advertise research studies
Side Projects
Pongmanship battles fast fashion one piece of upcycled clothing at a time. We believe in the message that fashion doesn't always have to be fast and harmful to the environment and those who make it. Something as simple and intentional as intricate hand embroidery can give new life to used and vintage clothing and apparel. 30% of the proceed from each embroidered piece is donated to Team #Pongo on the Share the Meal app, run by the United Nations World Food Programme, allowing purchases to fund meals for people across the globe who may need them. Though these steps are small and there is so much more room for growth, they prove another narrative that fashion can be slow and give back.
Education
A full-time, project-based, career-transformation Diploma program in User Experience Design. Developed mastery of industry-standard knowledge and skills, such as UX research, strategy, and planning, user interface and app design, applied design thinking, responsive web design, and professional development.
Activities and societies:
• Two design sprints
• Cross-collaboration between UX designers and Web Developers in a 24-hour hackathon for an industry partner, TELUS Digital.
• 10-week case study project
• Multiple overlapping deadlines
Study the brain and forms of cognition--natural, artificial, and the interactions between the two--through the interdisciplinary focuses of Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy.
Master fundamental design principles, interface best practices, and visual trends and patterns relevant to crafting website and mobile applications through hands-on experience with Figma.
Develop a foundation of user-centered design, focusing on developing compelling digital experiences for a multi-device ecosystem, gaining experience in industry-standard design basics and programs through designing a new ecosystem layout.