RECENT DESIGNS
ABOUT ME
I worked for Neudesic for twelve years from 2012 to 2024, overseeing the user experience and interface design of applications for the company's internal business needs. Started as a web designer, I gradually built up the team's design quality by not just creating interfaces that works well, but also formalizing the division's UX process, and bringing industry-standard approaches to user research and design. By the later years of my time at Neudesic, I operated as the lead UX expert for the team, setting and enforcing design standards, conducting system-wide UX reviews, and constantly working with fellow UX experts from other teams to evolve our own UX process.
An often-mentioned quote by computer science pioneer Alan Kay says "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." I believe something similar can be said about UX design and its relationship with technical implementation. In addition to being the UX lead for my team, I also served partly as their front-end developer. With intimate knowledge of the systems' underlying technology, I was able to align my design solutions closely to the technical characteristics of the systems, allowing a much smoother design-to-development workflow by saving valuable time that would have been spent revising and bringing the design to meet the technical requirements of a project.
OLD DESIGNS
Detectoconfirmeter
Year: 2011
Medium: Arduino
Role: Product conception, design, prototype
Original Concept: "Living in southern California, earthquakes are a frequent occurrence. with thousands of earthquakes a year in the region, it can be difficult to distinguish between a minor but real tremor and something else (e.g., a heavy truck passing by). This project is a proposal for a system that can detect tremors through the use of hardware components (Arduino) and sensors (accelerometer). In addition, with the advent of social networking sites such as Twitter, news spreads quickly through word of mouth. Traditional information websites, like the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), will take longer to confi rm whether an earthquake did actually happen. Therefore, the proposed device will look at Twitter activity to see if there is a heightened frequency of local posts regarding earthquake, and determine whether the tremor is likely to be an actual earthquake.
The actual prototype constructed implemented a majority of the proposed features, with Twitter polling simulated and the fetching of official information left out completely.
Project partner: Trina Choontanom
Technology:
Hardware: Arduino
Web interface: PHP
Detectoconfirmeter (2011)
A prototype earthquake-detecting device that polls USGS and Twitter data to confirm whether a tremor felt was indeed an actual earthquake, and displays relevant information.
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UC Irvine Alumni Association (2005-2007)
From 2005-2007 I took on an internship at the alumni association of the University of California, Irvine, being in charge of creating all their marketing material in both print and online media.
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"Meme" Exhibition Interactive Portal (2007)
A web-based gallery served as both marketing and showcasing portal for an exhibition for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine.
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