About Me

23 year-old West Coast native. Perpetually interested in computers,
the human brain, and learning about the ways people use both.

Work History

Lookout

Current Project

I work on the Lookout Android app, our newly-launched iOS app, & our web app MyLookout.com.

Microsoft

Aug '10 — Jan '11

I prototyped user interfaces for next-gen hardware created by Applied Sciences & other Windows teams.

vBulletin

Aug '09 — Aug '10

I created the visual graphics & interaction design for the vBulletin 4.0 software suite and mobile apps platform.

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I found design through lab research

I recently graduated from UCLA, where I studied Cognitive Science/Computer Science and did undergraduate research in education technology. I saw first-hand the ability of meaningful interfaces in accelerating insight in our user subjects. For me, interaction design was first the facilitation of expertise and later the pursuit of aesthetic.

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I'm working on my universe dent

My visual design exists to support great ideas. From being a solo designer on large teams early on, I learned to utilize style to push forward vision. The motifs around my work and passion projects have centered around mobile form-factors, knowledge delivery & contextualization, and making the web/real-life each work more like the other.

Academic Research

Cognitive Atlas

UCLA Center for Computational Biology

I helped create a web tool that discovers and maps correlated studies in separate domains of neuroscience research.

Visual Cognition

UCLA Learning Technology Lab

I built simple apps that study the ways visual interfaces can induce perceptual expertise in unfamiliar domains.

Hypercities

UCLA Academic Technology Center

I was a UX dev intern for an augmented - reality web app using Google GIS data to recreate historical city spaces.