When families are separated by distance, coordinating communication becomes difficult. Pico is a mobile application that aims to provide a personal way for families to connect using their smartphone cameras.

People often feel powerless to make a difference in their own community. CrowdChange is a ubicomp system that connects citizens with issues they care about and shows them how they can contribute.

As part of a class designed to simulate the experience of working at a design consultancy, I was involved in creating the design and branding for a Carnegie Mellon startup, Lumator.

As my capstone project for the MHCI program, I am working as the UX Design Lead in a group of five students creating a system for Expedia. We are investigating discovery experiences and the ways that people think about and interact with travel in their everyday lives.

The current user experience for grocery shopping is often confusing and frustrating. Our team looked at redesigning that experience to be efficient and enjoyable.

A rendering of an iPad magazine focusing on old-fashioned recipes updated for modern palates and values.

What if medical records were actually designed to be clear and understandable? The Veteran’s Administrative and Challenge.gov encouraged designers to think up new and innovative ways of presenting information to patients. Our entry in the Health Design Challenge was chosen to be part of a showcase of entries which “inspired the judges and challenged the status quo”.

This vision was the result of a two-month long contextual design process to study how students work on their assignments.

The UroGuide, a new solution to stress urinary incontinence, was the result of a year-long biomedical design project at Johns Hopkins University.