Projects

The Concept Our Streets, Our Stories is an ongoing oral history project run by the Brooklyn Public Library. The program aims to collect the personal stories of community residents throughout Brooklyn neighborhoods through recorded interviews. As an Our Streets, Our Stories volunteer responsible for conducting interviews, I initially set out to design a web-based solution […]

iSo Tones is a mobile music app for students, instructors, and music enthusiasts. It isolates and plays back the different layers of a track. The app also allows users to record themselves singing, or playing, whatever a particular layer and send that recording to friends and instructors for feedback. Initial Research: User Groups After conducting

ARTinerary: A Case Study ARTinerary is a unique resource for art critics, students, tourists as well as gallery and museum staff that enables the user to create an itinerary of gallery exhibitions from our extensive directory in New York City.  Offering a variety of pathways to search, there is also a discoverability element to ARTinerary

In Fall 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the website of Sojourner Truth Library at SUNY-New Paltz (http://library.newpaltz.edu/). Student Team: Kaitlin Kehnemuyi, Elizabeth McDonald, Marlee Walters Download

In Fall 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the SVA Library website (http://library.sva.edu/). Student Team: Carlos Acevedo, Bowon Chung, Cassandra Hickman, Andrew Wong-Crocitto Download Full Report:

In Fall 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the Morgan Library & Museum website (http://www.themorgan.org/). Student Team: Sarah Hatoum, Chantal Lee, Zinia Rahman, Ruojing Zhang

In Fall 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative (BJHI) website (http://brooklynjewish.org/). Student Team: Bridget Gavlin, Rachel Pisciotta, Joe Yeakel Download

StoreFronts is a scrapbook-like app, where users are encouraged to take photos of restaurants’ and bars’ storefronts to visually discover, capture, and organize the shared dining out experience. Research To begin the design process, research was conducted to evaluate the value proposition of StoreFronts. Research took the form of two interviews and a competitive review

In Spring 2015, a team of students from my Projects in Information Experience Design course (LIS 682) at Pratt Institute planned and implemented a semester-long research and design project aimed at helping the Asia Society Museum better engage with college-aged adults.