IDEO's shape is a collaborative innovation toolkit to help ideate, prototype, and share new ideas with your team an company. It allows users to place different types of content on a variable grid and includes collaboration features such as realtime text editing, commenting, notifications, and chat.

Shape was built with a React frontend, and a Ruby on Rails backend API. We setup elasticsearch to allow all the content to be searched, and realtime collaboration features with ActionCable. The front end includes a design system to keep consistent UI.

The cloud.gov platform is a Platform-as-a-Service for government agencies to help them easily deploy web services built on CloudFoundry

The cloud.gov platform has an extensive front end dashboard letting users fully manage their application and teams. This was built as a single page app with React and a design system style library. Cloud.gov also has a homepage and documentation static site.

The US Web Design Standards (WDS) is a design system created to bring more accessible, consistent, and usable design to government websites.

The team built the standards by researching with various government agencies to determine needs for a design system. Every component in the WDS was individually user researched and checked for accessibility. Research was also done with government developers to determine the right coding interface for the design system.

Peace Corps .gov wanted a new design and implementation for their donation platform as well as a new site for Michelle Obama's Let Girls Learn compaign.

We used Python's Django to create a robust donation platform that integrated with their payment provider as well as a newly designed front end based off of user research with Peace Corps site users. The Let Girls Learn site was created and published separately and included designing a parallax image experience to create a focus on the amazing imagery of the initiative.

Finding Echo is a JavaScript game built in one month for the js13k game competition. The game is less the 13kb minified and zipped.

The premise of Finding Echo is a dolphin is stuck in a cave in the deep ocean where there is no light. The dolphin has to use his echo location abilities to find his dolphin friends so they can escape.

An online address book that allows customers to add or upload all their contacts and print them automatically on the envelopes for their cards.

Allows adding addresses through online form, uploading excel or csv, posting FB messages to their friends, or sharing a link. Customers can then pick addresses to print on their envelopes, select various font options and will see a preview of the printed result.

Pinterest-style boards for customers to add uploaded images and Minted products to. Lets customers create a board for inspiration by using a drag and drop interface.

The address book was created with JavaScript and backbone, and used complex positioning algorithms to ensure boards looked good regardless of image dimensions uploaded.

Ottico, which means optical in Italian, is my personal photography gallery site. Ottico was created as a site to organized and share all my photography, and was started while I was working in Italy. The design focuses on the idea of looking at the world through the lens of a camera, and what can be revealed through this lens. The site uses the design pattern of graceful degradation to give a good UI experience even to users who have old browsers and javascript disabled.Users with more advanced systems will be presented with a more powerful interface

The final class in the design major at San Francisco State required students to research and develop a full sample prototype for a common problem. My problem was the absence of any map for the blind on SF State's website. My research led me to a map that was represented with textual information based on landmarks which would be inputed by users through Google Maps. This prototype shows how such a map on the SF State's library website could function to give a blind person a text version of a map, which could be read back to them by screenreader software.