Spectrum
Hack@Brown 2018 Facebook Prize Winner
Spectrum is a news aggregating website that shows politically diverse news sources. It was built to create mutual understanding between people at different points on the political spectrum, and start conversations between different groups.
Technologies: ReactJS, NodeJS, Google Cloud Sql, Python
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Mappable
YHack 2017
Mappable is a location-based data visualization web app built over 36 hours that enables our users to experience "life" in another location. As my first foray into Javascript, I worked on the backend of the app, transforming location-based information received from the client into related news articles and geo-located tweets.
Technologies: Javascript, Python, Google APIs, Twitter APIs
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Shell
Computer Systems Project
Project: Shell is a UNIX based C shell that interprets command line input and executes the appropriate actions, including running programs and managing I/O redirection. Shell is also able to handle multiple processes and provides a friendly environment to manage the processes.
Technologies: C
Iterative Design: Dropleaf
UI/UX Project
Using only their description from YCombinator, my team and I designed the UI of a "netflix for games" from scratch, maintaining a strong focus on usability principles throughout the process.
We also submitted our interfaces to industry for user testing, and to Dropleaf, where our work was noticed by their founder.
Technologies: Figma
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A/B Testing
UI/UX Project
Redesigned a website to create two versions implementing different usability concepts and design layouts. Ran an A/B test comparing click-through rate, time to click, dwell time and return rate.
Also conducted eye-tracking tests for both versions, and visualized the eye-tracking results on a heatmap.
Technologies: Python, Eye-tracking, Javascript
