Customized Stock Portfolio

Role: Designer, Carnegie Mellon University

Summary: In this design for an online personal investment portfolio, floating dots represent individual stocks leaving traces behind that reveal trends in value fluctuation. At a glance the user can see stock history, fluctuation trends, frequency of activity, performance relative to other stocks and overall portfolio status. This concept provides an instant qualitative appreciation of stock performance rather than purely quantitative analysis, allowing the user to quickly determine if portfolio is in need of adjustment.

Driver Information Interface

Role: Team leader, Design/Human-Computer Interaction, General Motors, Carnegie Mellon University

Summary: This research was conducted at CMU to assist GM’s development of the “smart car” concept. GM was interested in developing a driving environment that accommodated the flow of information about weather conditions, vehicle status, safety hazards, and multiple communication sources such as email and cellular phone.

In the course of one semester three teams of Design/HCI, Electronics, and Software specialists designed and developed a prototype of a working information environment in a GM vehicle. Highlights included heads-up information display, driver’s eye tracking camera, GPS, and digital/physical user interface. The concept selectively presented the driver with information according to a hierarchy of message importance relative to the goal of driving safely.

Diagram of theories related to the use of symbols in design

Role: Research and design, Carnegie Mellon University

Summary: This poster is a visual depiction of my exploration of the use of symbols in two-dimensional print design and three-dimensional product design.
It illustrates the many similarities between the two, highlighting the potential for using a product’s form to communicate such information as intended purpose and correct use.

dbaza's Palm-top Dietary Manager

Role: Senior Experience Architect, Head Designer, dbaza, inc.

Summary: This hand-held computer program was created to help people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes manage their complex dietary needs. Although designed with the child user in mind, the portable product can be used by people of all ages.

This program provides meal planning guidance, practice and education. It is designed to allow the user to quickly access and customize a vast food database with detailed information about carbohydrate, fat and protein content relative to portion size. The program calculates carb./insulin ratios, tracks meal plan adherence, and helps the user create healthy, balanced meals in accordance with doctors’ recommendations.

Corporate web site and online store, dbaza inc.

Role: Senior Experience Architect, Head Designer, dbaza, inc.

Summary: Design of the dbaza corporate web site began with a comprehensive needs analysis across specialized areas within the company. Marketing, research, product development, sales and corporate relations needs were considered to ensure that everybody’s outside constituents were accommodated. The site design also needed to clearly establish our new corporate identity system as well as allow task-oriented navigation by three unique types of online visitors; health care professionals, patients, and potential corporate partners.

Digital table of contents 3

Role: Designer, Carnegie Mellon University

Summary: Designed for an online book, this digital table of contents was developed in a manner that would provide a sense of the emotional qualities of the narrative. As an alternative to a text-based table of contents, this solution allows the reader to explore the contents by rolling over images representing the various sections of the story. As each section is activated sounds and images react, foreshadowing the section’s content.