Clients: AT&T, Belk Department Stores, First National Bank of Omaha, Microsoft Windows Live, Nokia for Business, Premiere Global Services, Southwest Airlines
Deliverables: heuristic reviews, competitive analysis, focus groups, surveys, stakeholder interviews, user scenarios & flows, personas, user experience brief, site maps, process flows, templates, wireframes, kiosk design, usability testing, banner ads
I conducted my capstone project at Powered, Inc., an educational marketing firm in Austin, Texas. The project was a user experience evaluation of Powered's websites, focusing on two specific sites to generate deliverables. The report and capstone presentation linked below have been deidentified and all images have been removed, but the overall concept is intact.
One of my responsibilities as a Teaching Assistant in the iSchool IT Lab is to create tutorials to support the software available in the lab. The Visio tutorial was created during Summer, 2005.
This study was conducted during Fall, 2005 for Advanced Usability class. The iSchool IT Labstaff has created approximately 50 tutorials and hosts them on the site that was tested. Usability test results are currently being used by the labstaff in a re-design.
The Rare Dictionary Website Project was completed in Fall, 2004 as part of a semester-long group project for IA class. The group reworked what began as a one-page html document, developed site organization and flow, and created an end product which includes nearly 100 pages.
In November, 2004 the UT Student Chapter of ASIS&T was revived by Valerie Gomez de la Torre, Shannon Lucas, and myself, along with guidance from out advisor, Randolph Bias. My year as a Co-Director was a fantastic experience, and I'm so proud of how UTASIS&T has grown. Tthe events archive lists many of the activities I was involved in:
By the year 2040, senior citizens will comprise 20% of the US population, up from 12% in 2000 (census.gov). How this impacts design from a usability and accessibility standpoint is a subject that has surfaced several times in my coursework. The first two pieces are fairly general, and the third piece explores how to market a hypothetical portal product for seniors.
The Web sites I worked on as a TA at the iSchool include Knowledge Management Systems, Introduction to Information Architecture and Design, and:
In the spring of 2006, Dr. Don Turnbull stepped in for Dr. Miles Efron as the Principal Investigator of the OpenChoice Project. Dr. Turnbull asked me to make some minor changes to the project site:
During the Spring, 2006 Semester, I worked on a group project creating Marketing materials for The Blanton Museum. Two of the most useful aspects of this project were the project flow diagram and the iterative process used to create the final product: