Project Overview: This is the home page for the students after they sign in to Aplia.com. The current design was built more than 3 years ago.
Goal: To improve efficiency addressing major user goals and clean up unnecessary elements on the page, to update the design visually
My Role: User experience designer
Company: Aplia
Year: September 2009 – December 2009 (more…)
Project Overview: Analytics is an interactive visual representation of students’ performance. Prior to analytics, instructors can only see raw data presented in the spreadsheet-style gradebook.
Goal: To allow instructors to quickly see students’ performance and point out problem areas that they are interested in.
My Role: User experience designer
Company: Aplia
Year: January 2009 – May 2009 (+ongoing iteration) (more…)
Project Overview: ApliaText is an innovative online textbook reader leveraging all the web has to offer to improve reading and learning experience.
Goal: To provide textbook content online and seamlessly integrate with student learning behavior.
My Role: User experience designer
Company: Aplia
Year: October 2008 – May 2009 (+ongoing iteration) (more…)
Project Overview: This is one of the major components of the gradebook. Most instructors have more than one source of scores and they want the students to be able to see their scores in one place.
Goal: To allow instructors to import scores from excel or csv to Aplia online gradebook.
My Role: User experience designer
Company: Aplia
Year: September 2008 – November 2008 (more…)
Project Overview: This application, Pegasus, is a full scale educational application that allow students and instructors to manage their courses and perform course activities online.
Goal: To design a comprehensive, highly usable course management system.
My Role: Interaction Designer and Usability Specialist
Company: Pearson Education
Year: 2005-2008
Project Overview: MyPearsonStore.com is Pearson Education’s online bookstore website. Target customers for MyPearsonStore.com are college/university students who want to buy textbooks.
Goal: To improve search tool and search result presentation.
My Role: User Research, Usability Study, Design Recommendation
Company: Pearson Education
Year: 2007
Project Overview: Tripro project consolidates content from various websites (e.g., Adobe Press, Cisco Press, FT Press, PeachPit, InformIT, etc.) and present them in three websites corresponding to three different categories; IT , Creative , and Business.
Goal: To ensure that the sites presentation, including new features such as blog and Podcast, suits target audiences.
My Role: Usability Specialist – Usability Study and Design Recommendation
Company: Pearson Education
Project Overview: MyLab is a collection of textbook supplemental websites (such as mywritinglab.com, myhistorylab.com, etc.) owned by Pearson Education. These websites were developed and owned by different business units. As a result, the structures of these sites are different and have caused user experiences to be different among MyLab sites.
Goal: To improve and simplify new user registration process.
My Role: Usability Specialist – Heuristic Review, IA review, Usability Study, Design Recommendation
Company: Pearson Education
Year: 2007
Project Overview: The amount of emails on has burgeoned due to the fact that many users use mail in a wide range of activities. Although email was originally designed as a communication application, it is wildly used for additional functions not originally intended for. For example, many users make use of email service for task management and personal archiving. There are many web-based email services such as Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and Gmail. These services respond to consumer demands by providing increasingly larger storage space for free. However, it is difficult for users to manage their inbox with the large volume of emails.
Goal: To develop the new web-based email interface that handles email overload problem.
Role: MS in Human-Computer Interaction student
School: Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis
Year: 2005
Project Overview: The goal was to redesign the Indianapolis International Airport Web site and conduct usability evaluation on the new design. The evaluation consisted of heuristic inspection, time-on-task and think-aloud, questionnaire, and interview. This project was a part of New Media – Usability Design for the Web class
My Role: MS in Human-Computer Interaction student
School: Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis
Year: 2003
