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Professional Experience

Tasks: user interviews and focus groups, user interviews and focus groups, comparative analysis, lo-fi and hi-fi development, usability tests and accessibility reviews, monitoring front-end and back-end development, comparative analysis, lo-fi and hi-fi development, usability tests and accessibility reviews, monitoring front-end and back-end development

Web Design Lead at Social Science Data Analysis Network (Sep '10- Present)

Objectives

  • Re-designing censusscope.org and facilitating development of front-end, database and back-end.
  • Performing a full scale usability evaluation of http://www.teachingwithdata.org/ website while prioritizing recommendation and making required changes.
  • Evaluating SSDAN website for compliance with W3C accessibility standards. Making recommendations and implementing changes.
  • Conceptualizing and designing an app for iPhone that use functionalities offered buy ArcGSI API and provides an interactive access to Census Data.
    Tasks: user-centered design of new and existing products, ux standardization and compliance reviews, six thinking hats thinking process, lo-fi and hi-fi development, business case development

    User Experience Intern at Sabre Holdings (Jun-Aug 2010)

    Objectives

    • Apply best practices for design of commercial user interfaces pertaining to desktop, web and mobile applications
    • Consistently incorporate branded style guide elements into user interfaces while adhering to usability principles
    • Work effectively on a multi-disciplinary team located in the US and in Poland
    • Support multiple concurrent projects with overlapping timelines
    • Communicate effectively with globally distributed software developers, testers, business owners, and other designers
      Tasks: stakeholder interviews, user interviews, comparative analysis, heuristic evaluation

      User Experience Researcher at University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center(Mar-May 2010)

      Objectives

      • Evaluated and compared the development website to its closest competitors
      • Determined client's needs and expectations of the website
      • Analyzed ways to improve the website based on user experience principles
      • Generated a final list of Recommendations according to priority and implementation effort
        Tasks: user-centered design, task-centered design , market research and contextual inquiry , diary study, lo-fi and hi-fi development, usability testing, collaborate with visual designers and programmers

        Design Engineer at Geodesic Limited (Jun '08-Jul '09)

        Objectives

        • Lead designer of Mundu TV
        • Follow user centered approach for design of mobile based instant messaging solutions
        • Work effectively with a multi-disciplinary design team and a programming team
        • Conduct research to standardize and evaluate ux standards for mobile phones
          Tasks: field study and user interviews, literature analysis, use-case diagrams, pilot testing,implementation

          Social Research Intern at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (May-Jul 2007)

          Objectives

          • Understanding autism and analysing existing literature/projects
          • Researching social influence effects involved with the use of tabletop interfaces
          • Evaluating different interactions by the load imposed by level of collaboration required
          • Conducting pilot tests and re-iterating
          • Implementing and evaluating gestures based by technical detailing and their inter-compatibility