I am a proactive creator of systems, spaces and products
I’ve designed buildings, websites, software, databases and workflows
My work explores concepts and strategies of physical and digital spaces
I am interested in ecosystems and understanding their connections
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Projects in Information Experience Design is a digital product design studio, under the Pratt DX Center, that collaborates with non-profit and community based organizations to redesign their websites and information systems. Student teams collaborate with clients and go through a full project lifecycle - from research to design - to develop Figma prototypes.
Completed 15 designs; 6 fully or partially built by clients
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Public is an investment platform focused on multi-asset portfolios
Role: Lead Researcher for Infrastructure and Growth teams
Projects: UX research studies informed product roadmap, subscription model and usability; created an insights database linking departmental research silos
Key Results: Improved UX for researching investment decisions to ensure investor confidence
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Key Project: Afghani Refugee Resettlement Database to support refugee relocation efforts in the U.S. in collaboration with a network of refugee-ambassadors
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NYC Mayor’s Office of the CTO uses technology to improve online social services
Role: UX research on a team embedded within the Department of Finance
Project: Redesigned the NYC’s CityPay portal supporting 27 city departments
Key Results: Improved interface with focus on language accessibility to reflect NYC population diversity leading to increased revenue while decreasing bounce rate
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Introduction to Architectural Design is a studio that teaches fundamental workflows, strategies and methodologies for designing buildings using 3D-modeling software
Previous collaborators
National Gallery of Art
Transportation Alternatives
CUNY CityTech, OpenLab
One Degree Impact
Mind Over Pain
Travel Unity
Witness to Mass Incarceration
Edgemere Farms
New York Mycological Society
New York Microscopical Society
ClimateScience.org
Welcome to Chinatown
Fibromyalgia Care Society of America
Rescue City
Education
Master’s of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, 2018
Bachelor’s of Architecture, Syracuse University, 2015
Work Influences
Buckminister Fuller’s Spaceship Earth
Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog
Emma Williard’s The Temple of Time
Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli’s Database, Network, Interface
Wendy Fok’s digitalStructures
Nicholas Negroponte’s The Architecture Machine
Cedric Price and John Frazer’s The Generator Project