During my time at Michigan Tech, I participated in the enterprise program. The enterprise program
is designed to provide practical experience for students, through working with real world problems
and clients as well as working together to solve a problem. I was a part of the humane interface design
enterprise (HIDE). This enterprise focuses on software development and usability research. I
participated on the Human Factors team, which was dedicated to helping the other teams create their
interfaces and user experience flows. During that time, I worked on a number of projects with my
team, laid out here.
The computer science department at Michigan Tech wanted a new way of scheduling classes and understanding
visualising the data as they worked. Our team was asked to create a prototype for what the interface might
look like. To accomplish this, we interviewed the development team and department staff who are responsible
for the scheduling of classes. Based on these interviews, our team developed this prototype and presented it
to the development team.
It is meant to mimic the layout and organization of Google Calendar because the department staff is already
familiar with that product. They had previously been using spreadsheets, so presenting the information this
way helps to show the conflicts that can occur between professors or specific classes. The screen is showing
what it would look like to look at the schedule of a specific professor, while the calendar demonstrates what
it would look like to see multiple professors at the same time. This prototype is an early design for the
project. It is not the final design and I was moved to a different team before it was finished.
This app is meant to assist people who serve legal papers for their job. I completed the most basic wireframe
prototype for the development team. This was meant to serve as a proof of concept for the client as well as
guide the direction of the development team. The design is based on interviews with the client, who both served
papers and oversaw others on his team. This app would be usable as both a website and as a mobile app, with the
mobile app assisting in showing proof of papers served. I was moved to a different project before the designs
were finalized.
