• Updating content and implementing new pages for the Computational Media (CM) website using WordPress

• Publishing and distributing weekly CM-focused newsletters through MailChimp

• Designing flyers for the College of Computing using Adobe Illustrator and Canva

• Validated design concepts for an interactive, AI-powered chatbot interface to empower merchant users to more easily simulate and adjust their product pricing, supporting customer needs and business initiatives

• Conducted and led user interviews with 6+ merchants and engineers

• Curated design documentation to support a component of the chatbot to live across merchandising tools at The Home Depot

• Creating workflows, wireframes, design mockups and prototypes to effectively conceptualize improvements for Stellar, CNN Digital's new internal CMS publishing platform

• Performing usability tests and drawing insights to make informed recommendations to enhance the Stellar Programming experience

• Conducting regular user research sessions with editorial users

• Collaborating with stakeholders and team members to brainstorm new features and functionalities

• Designed a dashboard ranking system, filter updates, and iconography for Home Depot's primary pricing analytics tool to increase the visibility of the company's 100,000 top-selling products, which bring in over 76% of company revenue

• Conducted user research through interviews and iterative usability testing sessions with 8+ merchants of the company's in-store and online products

• Collaborated with product and engineering counterparts to lead research and design direction within the project space, resulting in shipping the product during my time as an intern

• Designed end-to-end UX features for community non-profit organizations

• Conducted user research, created design recommendations, and built interactive prototypes across iterative sprints while integrating feedback from engineering, product, and fellow designers during weekly design critiques

• Collaborated with engineering and product to design a volunteer management system to keep track of 100+ developers and bootcamp members to simplify the recruitment process within the organization

• Created a financial planning dashboard featuring calendar and budgeting functions, supporting three national chapters of a local non-profit in their annual planning efforts

• Designed innovative features and component systems in short iterative sprints to simplify the process of connecting non-profits to potential partners (RFPs)

• Established design systems, mapped user flows and information architecture, and built high fidelity wireframes and interactions between interface features

• Performed competitive analysis to create feature recommendations and improvements, uncovering actionable insights through usability interviews

• Created and redesigned client websites to improve readability, aesthetics, and accessibility using Drupal

• Managed social media for for the Creative Career Origination Lab and WELLMC, its wellness initiative

• Drafted content ideas and designed graphics using Canva and Adobe Suite

Revamped home and dashboard interfaces, designed new RFP listing template in both condensed and full-page views, supported company's switch to a "freemium" model by designing locked and unlocked RFP listings, upgraded respondent and issuer profiles, and designed new "Ask AI" feature to support respondents in their search for relevant RFPs to respond to

(when they say that start-ups put you to work, they mean it 😅)

Designed a dashboard ranking system, filter updates, and iconography for Home Depot's primary pricing analytics tool, MPulse. This increased the visibility of the company's 100,000 top-selling products. Email me for more info :)

Designed a retreat planning tool that encompassed both trip expenses and fundraising goals as well as activity times and locations for Heart of Passion, an Atlanta-based non-profit that supports teen cancer patients by working with local high school chapters to teach teen leaders how to fundraise and plan meaningful, exciting summer retreats for these patients.

Based in Kampala, Uganda, Musizi University is a start-up liberal arts University focused on empowering students to change their lives and their communities. I collaborated with Musizi University staff to conduct research, design, and deliver the university's official website.

• Non-profit consulting for organizations in the greater Atlanta area. Clients included Center for Civic Innovation (CCI), Jennifer Ann's Group (JAG), and Inspire and Empower (IE)

• Managed a team of five other consultants, determined project scope, conducted market research, and delivered comprehensive recommendations to the client

• Created a 3-5 year strategic business plan for growth and development based on market research and analysis for (IE)

• Communicated with the client about specific deliverables, researched and analyzed the problem space, continuously integrated client feedback, and provided services such as web development (JAG) and data analysis (CCI)

Visual design concept for a cozy, video-game themed cafe for LMC 2720 (Intro to Visual Design)

Design futuring concept for LMC 3705 (Intro to Interaction Design)