Interaction Design PORTFOLIO
STORIES OF SLAVERy
med-fi Wireframe & Visual Design
In collaboration with Walter Hawthorne and Ethan Watrall of MATRIX, The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University
The Stories of Slavery iPad application concept presents data collected from The Slave Biographies project in an interactive and meaningful way to people interested in exploring the geographical locations, skills, and family relations of slaves from the Atlantic region. The application will connect people to maps, images, and documents through a narrative sequence or interactive visualizations.
VISUALIZING SLAVE BIOGRAPHIES
Interactive DATA VISUALIZATION CONCEPTS
In collaboration with Walter Hawthorne and Ethan Watrall of MATRIX, The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University
Data collected from The Slave Biographies project is presented in interactive data visualizations, rather than through lists of information and/or spreadsheets.
Slave Biographies (Atlantic Database Network) Website
VIETNAM GROUP ARCHIVE PROJECT
Med-fi wireframe & interactive prototype
In collaboration with Liza Potts and Catherine Foley of MATRIX, The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University
The MSU Vietnam Group Archive includes roughly 80,000 pages of digitized documents, maps, and images from 1955-1962. This interactive map allows for users to search and explore the documents.
DOCUMENTING + ANALYZING CHEROKEE & OJIBWE LANGUAGES
med-fi Wireframe & Visual Design
Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries, with Ellen Cushman and Liza Potts
The goal of the grant was to create a web-based, user-friendly interface prototype to provide a model for enhancing user understanding of Ojibwe and Cherokee language manuscripts, as well as the key linguistic features of those languages.