PORTFOLIO

Flirtastic! : Fall 2007
Flirtastic! is a fun and fresh way for you to flirt with people online! This project was sponsored by Adobe at Carnegie Mellon University.

Contextual Web History : On-going
Contextual Web History is a novel browser history which improves the visibility of the history feature, and makes use of the visual appearance of the web page as well as the user's working context to help people find previously visited web pages.

Privacy Label : On-going
Website privacy policies are intended, in part, to assist cosumers. However most privacy policies currently are written by lawyers and are hard for majority of consumers to understand. Using P3P or the Platform for Privacy Preference, this project explores representations of the privacy policies that are shorter, more intuitive, and visually effective to the consumer. Check out more details for the design process and iterations.

Lunchbox : Fall 2007
An iPhone application that makes orchestrating and attending lunches an organized and easy process. Focusing mainly on the business crowd, it creates a framework in which a user can easily see what his or her plans are, edit those plans, or make new ones. By aiding with restaurant selection, maintaining a guest list, and sending invites, Lunchbox eliminates the need for a series of phone calls and emails. It also offers some unique features such as “Surprise Me”.

Search for Sustainable Housing : Fall 2007
After having spend a semester studying how users go about looking for housing, students in Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction course “Methods of HCI" have proposed a design which aims to enhance a user’s experience during this process while promoting sustainable values. Majority of the project consisted of user research through HCI practices such as Contextual Inquiry and Contextual Design, Keystroke-Level Modeling, Heuristic Evaluation, Cognitive Walkthrough and Think Aloud usability studies.

Tagging Interaction : Summer 2007
When I was an intern at Mozilla in summer of 2007, one of the smaller areas I explored and prototyped as the tagging interaction. To try the prototype, please click on the link below from a Firefox browser (it does not run otherwise).

Ink-Tutor : Spring 2007
This project explored ideas and designs in a online collaboration tool that would seem intuitive and easy-to-use in exchanging ideas for the users. The overall process consisted of two main parts. First, user studies were run to learn about people exchanging ideas on and offline (more details in the following section). Then, based on the information found in several user studies, an iterative design was done on prototype designs. These prototypes were used in the following user studies to make further improvements.

imgTag : Fall 2006
This was an improvement from an already existing Firefox extension called imgTag. The original extension provides the user with the ability to automatically generate HTML image tags from any image viewed in Firefox, and automatically copies it to the clipboard. The purpose of the extension is to aid the user while web page editing. This original extension only allowed the user to create xtml image tags and nothing else. Some of the major modifications included GUI development using Javascript and XUL technology (Mozilla's UI dialect).