Work

  • Planeterra: UN Sustainable Development Goals

    The Challenge Communicating Planeterra’s Commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) In the capstone class for my Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility Certificate, Business Solutions for the Developing World, each group of students was assigned a real company to work alongside to help solve a business problem. Planeterra is an NGO whose mission is

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  • Alone Time Final Project

    The Challenge Design a Solution to Better Spend Alone Time There are an infinite number of ways to spend alone time. Some are productive, others are not as much, and many of these decisions are easy to make; others require more cognitive load. For example, it may seem easier to scroll for an hour than

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  • Exploding Heart Animation

    The Challenge Reimagine the “Like” Button I remember being young, maybe age 10-12, and watching the news with my parents. The reporters were talking about the emergence of social media, explaining to viewers “likes” and “follows”, and other new terms. What I remember most vividly was the explanation of the hashtag. No longer known as

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  • Twitter Down Screen

    The Challenge Redesign The Down Screen For Twitter Twitter has a popular downtime screen to let users know that the site is overcapacity. Called the Fail Whale, it shows a whale being playfully airlifted by Twitter birds, with the short error message below. The purpose of this assignment was to create a different Twitter downtime

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  • Magazine Cover

    The Challenge Design A Magazine Cover Within Constraints For this assignment, my classmates and I were to create a list of 10 adjectives, pick an adjective that we liked most. Then we searched for the adjective in Adobe Colors Explore, and used the first palette on the explore results to design a magazine cover. The

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  • Negative Space Exploration

    The Challenge Using Negative Space to Design a Movie Poster For this design lab, students were randomly given movie titles and genres for which they had to create a movie poster. I centered all of my elements in the center of the page to convey a linear story with symbols of mystery. Using color and

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