A paper written in RHE 330C, focusing on the User Experience (UX) Design involved with Books’, Duolingo’s, and Fizz’s streak counters. This essay highlights my integrative awareness of UX principles that break down unassuming user experiences to highlight designers’ intentionality. The project was spurred by my daily usage of the Books and Fizz Apps: inspiration taken from my identity to create a detailed academic piece.

These sketches and their accompanying descriptions illustrate some of my ideation during the course of RHE 330C: User Experience (UX) Design. I was prompted to design an app aimed at helping users learn about food items they encounter in a grocery store, providing the opportunity to display my knowledge of color and memory in the scope of UXD.

My research delves deep into my identity as an Asian American woman finding her place through contemporary literature. This essay displays my passion and the core text supporting my thesis through the analysis of connection amidst political persecution, displaying my adeptness at understanding intersectional identities and the Asian American diaspora in an academic capacity.

As a part of a larger group project where my teammates and I were tasked with creating an app that would exact positive change, I had the opportunity to act as the lead author of our article. The essay showcases my focus on preparatory research as we dove into interviews, academic discourse, and market analyses, confirming my focus on detail-oriented foundational work to strengthen a final product.

While designing this portfolio site, I enlisted several participants in a card sorting activity to gather information on the natural mapping users may expect. This example of my preparatory research highlights my dedication to creating a sound foundation before diving into design. Centering the user, even in presenting my identity, is a priority.

This paper was written in RHE 330C as a practice in identifying, researching, and approaching problems. My writing on finding veterinary care emphasizes my focus on identity as I dove headfirst into my passion for animals with self-sourced interviews and in-depth research.

Understanding an industry involves looking at competitors. My SWOT analysis is one part of a preliminary research process that highlights researched awareness in application development through a breakdown of the LA Fitness app as my group and I worked on creating a smart gym application.

With my path toward graduate school, much of my work in my undergraduate career is geared toward literature. This essay is a display of the intersection between scholarship and gender identity through a look at Jayne Anne Phillips’ Lark and Termite. In accordance with the consistent integration of my identity in academic writing, the paper breaks down gendered double standards in conversation with scholarly discourse.

As my RHE 330C group and I developed a smart gym application, we knew that we wanted to keep our most pertinent users in mind. Therefore, I used our interview responses and research to develop two user profiles that stood as a culmination of our findings and anchored our app development on the users. These profiles illustrate my detail-orientedness and analytical skills as I combed through our interviews to build the hypothetical users.