UX Portfolio
A Snapshot
My previous UX Design work has given me experience in the following UX Practices:
My previous UX Design work has given me experience in the following UX Practices:
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Along with practice using the following tools:
- User Zoom
- Just in Mind
- Omni Graffle
- Qualtircs
- Auxure
- Balsamiq
Research
Ethnography
Visiting customer workspaces to get a true sense of the context in which they are working, their extraneous conditions and their real needs.
Visiting customer workspaces to get a true sense of the context in which they are working, their extraneous conditions and their real needs.
Affinity Diagramming
Collecting insights from customer interviews, evaluating them and arranging them into categories of common themes and features.
Collecting insights from customer interviews, evaluating them and arranging them into categories of common themes and features.
Journey Mapping
Walking through each and every step in a users journey to complete a task to understand each piece of the puzzle and looking for opportunities to improve their experience.
Walking through each and every step in a users journey to complete a task to understand each piece of the puzzle and looking for opportunities to improve their experience.
Design
3M Regulatory Documentation
Building a platform to allow customers to easily access information about product ingredients in order to comply with evolving state requirements.
Building a platform to allow customers to easily access information about product ingredients in order to comply with evolving state requirements.
3M Type-Ahead Proof of Concept
Pulling together best practices from across the industry to build a case for the implementation of type-ahead search on 3M.com.
Pulling together best practices from across the industry to build a case for the implementation of type-ahead search on 3M.com.
Class Work
HCI 596: Thinkspace Redesign
Collaborators:
This was a class project for 'Emerging Practices in HCI' in my first semester of graduate school. The goal of the class was to familiarize us with some of the many tools used in User-Center Design. Our project was the redesign of a web-based instructional platform called Thinkspace. The site was challenging to navigate and full of violations in Gestalt principles. Each group chose a different feature to modify. Our group chose to modify the navigation of the site by improving the tab feature and making the pages consistant.
Outcomes:
Low-fidelity paper prototypes were created to gather user feedback of our concept through usability tests that utilized think-aloud protocol. The design was the iterated on and a mid-fidelity prototype was then created using Balsamiq and administered to users using User Zoom and Just in Mind in the UX Lab at Iowa State University. A survey was administered using Qualitrics and the results were used to create a final high-fidelity prototype using Omni Graffle to pitch to the stake holders. The improvements were able to be incorporated into the design of the new Thinkspace.
- Patrick Carlson
- Tom Parham
This was a class project for 'Emerging Practices in HCI' in my first semester of graduate school. The goal of the class was to familiarize us with some of the many tools used in User-Center Design. Our project was the redesign of a web-based instructional platform called Thinkspace. The site was challenging to navigate and full of violations in Gestalt principles. Each group chose a different feature to modify. Our group chose to modify the navigation of the site by improving the tab feature and making the pages consistant.
Outcomes:
Low-fidelity paper prototypes were created to gather user feedback of our concept through usability tests that utilized think-aloud protocol. The design was the iterated on and a mid-fidelity prototype was then created using Balsamiq and administered to users using User Zoom and Just in Mind in the UX Lab at Iowa State University. A survey was administered using Qualitrics and the results were used to create a final high-fidelity prototype using Omni Graffle to pitch to the stake holders. The improvements were able to be incorporated into the design of the new Thinkspace.
A Snapshot
ME 486: Corn Grinder for Mali
Collaborators:
This was a project for my capstone design class my Senior year of College at Iowa State. We were charged with the task of creating a corn grinder for the women in a small village in Mali. The top design in the class would have the opportunity to have their prototypes tested by the women of Mali through the Engineers without Borders program. Our group completed a wants/needs analysis, performance analysis, and a Pugh matrix was completed in order to highlight the greatest needs by the women using the grinder.
Outcomes:
The group came up with over 20 design ideas and narrowed down the results based on the previous analysis. preliminary design was created in SolidWorks and a final design was created using the resources in the Boyd Lab. A few modifications to the design were made as testing revealed a few flaws, but the result was a full functioning corn grinder that was capable of grinding corn at a rate of 1.16 kg/hour, surpassing our design goals of 1 kg/hr.
- Beau Rabusch
- Claire Funke
- Keysha Hennings
- Luke Swanson
- Paul Trieu
This was a project for my capstone design class my Senior year of College at Iowa State. We were charged with the task of creating a corn grinder for the women in a small village in Mali. The top design in the class would have the opportunity to have their prototypes tested by the women of Mali through the Engineers without Borders program. Our group completed a wants/needs analysis, performance analysis, and a Pugh matrix was completed in order to highlight the greatest needs by the women using the grinder.
Outcomes:
The group came up with over 20 design ideas and narrowed down the results based on the previous analysis. preliminary design was created in SolidWorks and a final design was created using the resources in the Boyd Lab. A few modifications to the design were made as testing revealed a few flaws, but the result was a full functioning corn grinder that was capable of grinding corn at a rate of 1.16 kg/hour, surpassing our design goals of 1 kg/hr.