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Menlo Park, California

San Francisco Bay Area

Seattle, WA

Most recently I worked on an interdisciplinary innovation team tasked with painting the future of Expedia as an online travel agency. Prior to that, I was a hybrid designer & researcher supporting our Activities product. In my three years at Expedia, I have conducted numerous generative and evaluative research studies, as well as designed and shipped many.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

At John Deere I designed and lead a series of workshops on wearable technologies using participatory design methodologies to explore potential uses and applications of wearable devices. I also conducted a diary study, surveys, and interactive design jams.

Champaign, Illinois

As a graduate research assistant on the Transforming Taxonomic Interface project, I worked with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Illinois Natural History Survey to conduct ethnographic research to study how biological taxonomists work in order to design, prototype, and test new taxonomic tools and interfaces.During this.

Pleasanton, CA

As a User Experience Researcher at Workday, I redesigned the mobile navigation user experience of the Workday iOS app through an iterative design process including competitive analysis and design teardowns, user research, and usability testing. I also conducted user studies comparing several mobile navigation user experiences, and researched, designed, and.

Urbana, IL

• Facilitate open hours and teach visitors how to use digital fabrication equipment, including laser cutters, 3D printers and CNC machines.
• Organizing and running workshops for local community groups
• Teaching visitors how to use digital fabrication equipment and techniques
• Work on projects that benefit the lab
• Build cool things

Champaign, Illinois

• Led a team of interns to develop a new corporate intranet system to be used at State Farm
• Was a member of a three person “Innovation Incubator” Team; came up with and researched ideas, and developed one to the prototype stage

Chicago, Illinois

• Wrote a guideline for User Interface design for use across Business Logic’s web applications
• Worked with programmers and designer to create User Experience for LikeAssets web application

Master Of Science, Library And Information Science

I combined the human-centered service of librarianship with the qualitative, humanistic research methods of anthropology, and the.

Sociocultural And Linguistic Anthropology, Minor In Informatics

Activities and Societies: Illini Independent (editorial journal), NCN@Illinois Student Leadership Council

Anthropology

Semester long study abroad.

Cross-Strait Politics, Mandarin Chinese

Summer Study Abroad Program

Asian Business And Management

Summer Study Abroad

Education record