Starship

Intro

Starship robots display a wide range of possibilities outside of food delivery. In Winter 2025, I was part of a group trying to brainstorm other potential solutions for Starship robots other than delivering food. My team decided to use Starship robots to advertise events around campus.

Process

Throughout this project, we researched Starships, club-student relations, advertising methods, and more. After researching these topics, we interviewed students who have used Starship robots to receive input on the app experience and information regarding possible pain points users experienced. After gathering insights on the current experience using the delivery service, we began prototyping and discussing possible solutions for our event promotion idea, dubbed Promo-Bot.

Findings

After receiving feedback from peers, teachers, and club members, we ideated our concept and created our final storyboard.

Contributions

Interviews & User Testing

Interview Protocol
Initial interview/interview analysis
Feedback protocol

Documentation/Presentation

Conclusions
References
Proofreading
Initial presentation design

Fitness App

Intro

During Spring 2025, my final project was to enhance any existing fitness tracker app. We chose to enhance the Apple Fitness app. My group’s solution was dubbed “Sun,” an additional ring on the Fitness app.

This ring utilizes the Apple Watch’s ambient light sensor, which can detect when you’re outside. By spending at least 20 minutes each day outside, you can close your ring (and obtain numerous health benefits!)

Process

During the brainstorming process, we were trying to think of a way to add something new to Apple’s Fitness app. However, our challenge was that the three rings they have (Move, Exercise, and Stand) already encompass a lot of physical activity. So we thought of another way to be healthy: sunlight. Our additional ring keeps track of how often you go outside to make sure you’re getting enough sunlight, which can improve physical and mental health.

Prototype

We used Figma to design and test our prototypes for the app UI.

Contributions

Concept/project idea
Research on health benefits from the sun
Low-fidelity prototypes
SUN iPhone and Apple Watch screens

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Nourysh

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Nourysh

Intro

I worked on Nourysh, an e-commerce startup that empowers entrepreneurs and small businesses by letting them create their own digital marketplace on Nourysh’s website.

My team’s goal during this project was to create a high-fidelity, mobile use case prototype in the form of a mobile app.

Process

My team kicked off our secondary research by performing a website audit on Nourysh. We created an information hierarchy for the website so we could see what the most important screens were to incorporate into our app.

We also examined other shopping apps to gain inspiration for our design. We then voted on what features from all the websites and apps we liked best.

After completing our secondary research, we began to perform interviews with users on Nourysh to gather pain points and suggestions for our mobile use case.

Prototype

With research completed, we began to design our screens. We created sketches, low-fidelity prototypes, and then performed testing on our mockups. We then did a codesign workshop with our project sponsor to inform our design decisions and create our high-fidelity prototype.

By the end of our project, we had given Nourysh documented research on their competitors, a high-fidelity prototype, and our design documentation.

Contributions

Secondary research
Assisted in creating and hosting interviews
Low-fidelity prototypes
Documentation

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