katiemccurdy.com
an HCI portfolio | kathryn.mccurdy at gmail dot com
[sensical] is my blog on user experience, information architecture, grad school adventures & web development.
Recent Projects
Tacoma Crime Visualization
Mozilla Design Challenge
Helping O.U.T.
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Past Courses
Information Visualization
Evaluation of Systems and Services
ECommunities
Information Architecture
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Contextual Inquiry
Design of Complex Websites
Interests
Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User-Centered Design, online communities.
Brief Design Manifesto
I will work to create logical, intuitive, and pleasant online experiences by communicating directly with users, employing user-centered design methods, simplifying the complex, and creating clean visual designs.
Schooling
I currently attend the University of Michigan's School of Information, where I am specializing in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I'll graduate in 2010.
Featured Project
Tacoma Crime Visualization: our team's goal was to visually represent crime in the city of Tacoma, Washington using an interactive web-based interface. Our team blog describes our user-centered design process, and our functional prototype is available at tacomacrime.org.
Our client, Tacoma's planning office, was pleased with our results and will use the prototype to help guide future crime visualization projects.
Experience
A life-changing experience helping lead an enterprise wiki implementation project fueled my passion for user-centered design, information architecture, interaction design, and online communities.
During the summer of 2009, I willl be gaining excellent experience as an Interaction Design Intern at VMware's San Francisco office. For more on my experience, see my HCI project and web development portfolios along with my resume.
Contact me: kathryn.mccurdy at gmail dot com