Designs

These are some designs I made in personal projects. I can not list work projects because of confidentiality agreements and privacy policies.

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An efficient and transparent news aggregator web application. It offers a way for users to stay updated on top news, highlighting relevant stories with quality and transparency.

Features

  • Easily Find Interesting News
  • Efficiently Digest News
  • Get a "Big Picture" on Current Events
  • Discuss with Others
  • Get Tailored Content
  • Customization

Future Improvements

  • Allow Opinion Pieces: Incorporate editorials and opinion articles to present diverse perspectives and foster healthy debate.
  • Expand on Map Page: Show connection weights between articles.
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Dora

A mobile application to discover, plan, and optimize vacation trips.

Features

  • Personalized discovery based on user's needs
  • Trip Building tools for thorough trip organization
  • Trip Archival
  • "Best Deals" Tracker

Future Improvements

  • Integrations: Connect with other relevant apps like Booking, Skyscanner or Hertz.
  • Journals: Improve trip archiving. In addition, make it as automatic as possible using the integrations mentioned above.
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Touch Grass

An application to discover outdoor activities and communities.

Features

  • Map that displays events in an area. Can be filtered to optimize the UX.
  • Event pages that entail details about activities.
  • Community pages to connect with others.
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UChicago App Modernization

Refreshed some pages of the UChicago web and mobile Applications to provide a better User Experience to prospective or current students.

Updates

  • Landing page: Updated the landing page for prospective students.
  • Student pages: Modernized the main student application to include all peripheral applications that are used in UChicago classes. Now students can have one application for every use case, and seamlessly swap between the encapsulated applications.
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Neon Spotify

A remake of the Spotify app with a neon/cyberpunk theme.

Features

  • The UX is identical with the original Spotify app, my changes are only design based.
  • The UI uses bright colors on top of black backgrounds to create that Cyberpunk vibe.
  • Each page has a different color to make the app pop.
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