Bots and Pans was a project for Info 213 – User Interface design. Over the course of the semester, my group took this project through a full design cycle, from initial concept, to contextual inquiry (studying how people interact with their favorite casual games), to paper prototyping and user testing, and finally to an interactive prototype.
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Tag Radio is a music classification visualization that shows the relationships between genres. We used the Last.fm API to pull in the top 50 tags, and then created a python script to measure similarity between a tag and all others based on the number of shared tags. Finally, we used this data to build a visualization with d3.js that arranges these tags in space based on similarity (closer distance = more similar tags).
Our new kitten is fascinated by the mouse cursor, and a cursory (heh) Google search didn’t turn anything up, so I made this:
Catmonsters was a webcomic I authored primarily between 2007 and 2009. When I started out, my subpar drawing skills made it tough to create anything resembling a person. As a workaround, I created the Catmonsters, characters who talk and think and behave exactly like people, except with heads shaped like cats and amorphous multicolored bodies.
3VR designs and manufacturers DVRs (digital video recorders) for the security industry. The company’s flagship product is a desktop application, but their customers also require web and mobile access to their security systems. For this project I was tasked with reinvisioning the company’s interface for the web, and produced an interactive prototype to demonstrate some of the design’s concepts.
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