Guided Tour

What's your most technically complex work?

These projects both involve extensive custom Machine Learning model pipelines, statistical data analysis, and native iOS/MacOS application development.

Which project best demonstrates the full process of user-centered design methods?

This project involves ethnographic studies; multiple models of interpretation: flow models, sequence models, artifact models, interpretation sessions; affinity diagramming, storyboards, use cases. Finally, it culminates in multiple reports synthesizing the surprising findings, and a high-fidelity native SwiftUI prototype redesign.

Which project best represents the premise "You wouldn't have found that out from a survey?"

Ethnographic study and multiple models of interpretation revealed surprising insights about how users resort to meta algorithm-gaming strategies, in lieu of clear ways to directly influence the Spotify recommendation algorithms.

Which project is most likely to materially help real people in the near future?

Both of these projects are research and development I've done through the RIT AIR Lab. They both strive to make real accessibility differences in peoples' lives, and promote independence and well-being.

What's your weirdest project?

The Oracle project is rooted in all the strange mysticism of mythological lore. The technical component with the LLM AI and the semantic modeling is compelling, but amidst all these other design and engineering heavy projects, the fantastical qualities of this project filled with prophecies and epic poems, which I built immersed in the place of a European workshop, stands out as a personal highlight and change of pace.

I'm hiring for a UX research role, where should I look first?

These projects are rich in UX research. My thesis is a multi-stage formal exploration into gesture elicitation, implementation, validation, and usability testing for a novel gesture input modality. The Spotify project has the full lifecycle of user-centered-design methods put into practice, with surprising insights.

I'm hiring for an engineering-leaning role, where should I look first?

The Stress-Adaptive Productivity Interfaces project is an entire ecosystem: 7 applications, IoT devices and sensors, wearables, inter-process communication relays, and adaptive desktop productivity applications including stress-adaptive clones of Slack and Microsoft Word, and a Slack activity simulator for demos. My thesis consists of 4 native iOS/watchOS/MacOS applications exploring a novel gesture modality, a custom machine learning training pipeline, and a custom, polished study facilitation and data collection toolset.

Which project best explores wearable devices?

My thesis is a deep exploration of a novel gesture input modality using smartwatch wearables, while the Stress-Adaptive Productivity Interfaces ecosystem is enabled by biometric data inputs from a galvanic skin response (GSR) sensor and heartrate BPM from a smartwatch.