Product Designs
NUID
Think Outside the Card
 Our product name and slogan |  Setting up the initial schedule for research, prototyping, and user testing |
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 Original product sketch |  Getting feedback from classmates on features to include in the app |
 The final prototype in action at the library |  The final prototype in action at the library |
We Northwestern students lose and break our physical ID card a lot. These ID cards are a hassle for us students and expensive for Northwestern to replace.
After conducting user research on various alternatives, we came up with the NUID smart phone app that would supplement the physical card. We prototyped the app and user tested additional features such as pass-code locks and accessing dining meal plans.
Eat Up
Let us handle the menu so you can just Eat Up!
 Eat Up Tagline |  Eat Up App |
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 Home page listing nearby restaurants |  Menu break down with user ratings |
 Ratings, pictures, and comments on dishes |  Enlarged photo of specific dish |
 Eat Up logo |
Ever go to a restaurant and have no clue what to order from the menu? Or crave something specific but don't know where to go?
We came up with the Eat Up App that would allow you to search a large database of restaurants and find specific menu items and see user reviews and comments by dish. It would also allow users to search by location, restaurant, and cuisine type.
Pop Up
A Public Seating Design Project
 The logo for our seating solution. |  Initial sketches |
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 Concept sketch rendering in the location we were looking at improving. |  A scaled CAD model of the design |
 The proof of concept for the design |  Testing the cardboard proof of concept for individual work space |
For a design space, there was a dire lack of individual and group work spaces in the Northwestern Ford building.
I worked with one other classmate make a public seating and table space that would fit over the rails currently dividing the space. We wanted the prototype to allow for both individual work and group collaboration. We researched, sketched, modeled, and created a cardboard prototype for our classmates to try out. The final design included a collapsible tabletop and whiteboard.
SmArt
Creating a Future product for a Current Hobby
 |  Very early concept sketches |
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 Concept sketch of the Smart Canvas |  The sketch and design for the SmArt Canvas |
 The sketch and design for the SmArt Brush |  The sketch and design for the SmArt Palette |
 In Context concept sketch |
Digital Drawing tablets are a great way to reduce the mess of traditional painting but they lack the tactile feedback that a brush and canvas would give the artist.
I created the idea of SmArt to introduce tactile feedback to digital painting. This digital brush and pallet set looks and feels like a traditional canvas and would create 3D pigmentation for tactile feedback. The painting can then be saved digitally.
The Trident
Improving the Classroom Space
 Storyboard for the general problem of classroom space |  Original ideas for improving the classroom in general |
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 The design sketch for the Trident, a hook system attaching to table legs |  The placement and use of the Trident |
When winter comes, suddenly the floor in the classroom is buried in backpacks and bulky coats.
My design hooks to the table leg and provides hooks to hang backpacks and a place to drape coats. Shown here are my preliminary sketches for brainstorming, the storyboard, and finally the Trident design.