Spice it Up! Revamping the Cooper Union Library Website.

Targeting and unfolding commonly occurred student pain points by revamping the Cooper Union Library website. Role UX ResearcherUX Designer Team Minh NguyenChu Yuan ChiuQiaochu ZhangPujan ThakerShikha Mehta Duration 6 weeks(03/20 – 04/29) Tools Figma, Google Meets, Google Slides, Google Form, Tableau. Before we get started, here are some quick notes! Our Clients Lisa, Dale, and […]

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Reimagined Realities: Unveiling a Cutting-Edge Design of GIS Landscape for CUNY

By Penghao Zhu / May 3, 2024 Client: Long Island Zoning Atlas for CUNY Discipline: UX/UI Design, Usability Testing Design Tool: Figma, C4D, Google Form, Zoom Research Methods: Moderate Remote User Testing, Affinity Diagram My Role: UX Research, UX/UI Design Duration: 6 weeks Team: Radhika, Manjot, Ivory, Calvin, Kacey About the Client The CUNY Mapping

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Transforming a ‘Sad N’ Boring’ template to a Happy N’ Beyond unique brand

Our team of five, each held roles as UX Researcher and UI/UX Designer, conducted usability testing and iterative design to evaluate and optimize the conversion process on Happy N’ Beyond website. My Role UX Research, UI/UX Design Team Kefan Ma, Allison Long, Emily Gu, Lena Nazaryan, Lori Chiang Client Happy N’ Beyond Platform Happy N’

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9/10 Persons are not satisfied with CCPD Website

Usability Testing Case Study Client and Problem Description: The client for this project was the Pratt Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD), tasked with supporting students and alumni in their career development journeys. The overarching problem was to enhance the usability and user experience of the CCPD website to better serve its target audience. The

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How I Built a Reddit Design System in 15 Weeks

PROJECT DETAILS MY ROLE User Experience DesignerUser Researcher TIMELINE 15 Weeks TOOLS Figma MiroZero Height TEAM MEMBERS TIMELINE CONDUCTING A UI INVENTORY As an engaged member of the Reddit community, I deeply appreciated the platform’s unique design and user experience. However, through performing an UI Inventory on the site, I noticed opportunities to enhance consistency

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Assistive technology: Gaming via the Xbox Adaptive Controller

Introduction: The Xbox Adaptive Controller is a groundbreaking device developed by Microsoft to make gaming more accessible to individuals with limited mobility. First conceptualized in an internal hackathon in 2014, the device underwent several adaptations before its final release to the public in 2018. Designed with extensive input from gamers with disabilities and advocacy organizations,

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Design Critique: Copilot, Microsoft’s AI Chatbot (The Bing App for iOS)

Copilot is the newest iteration of Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot technology, designed to provide users with access to a conversational interface to assist them with tasks related to productivity, discovery, and creation. To evaluate the user experience, I downloaded the Bing app for iOS and interacted with the Copilot feature myself.

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Design critique: IKEA Kreativ (iOS app)

IKEA is one of the world’s largest furniture retailers for affordable and ready-to-assemble home goods. The IKEA Kreativ, a virtual design tool inside the IKEA app, allows users to design interactive showrooms or in their living place virtually and bring the iconic showroom experience that exists in IKEA’s offline store locations to a digital platform.

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Digital drawing of a sailboat at sea with a shore and a palm tree. The artwork is in a blurry watercolor style and was created using the Tayasui Sketches iPhone application.

Design Critique: Tayasui Sketches (iPhone App)

Tayasui Sketches is an art making interface that employs the use of realistic tools and the customization of many aspects of the creative process. The user is able to create new works based off of templates, pick from a selection of tools that adapt to the digital canvas, and explore many other possibilities that can be associated with digital art-making applications.

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