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Project Management Class · Como Recycling CenterHardware + software

IoT Data Collection Buttons

  • IoT
  • Hardware
  • C++
  • API
  • Project Management
CAD render of the button housing: a small enclosure with a recessed button on top
The button internals: push button, microcontroller, charging board and lithium battery wired together
Paper Line Dashboard app: a start paper hamper button with logged start and end times
Process Levels screen: hamper type, process level, notes, number of sorters and number of hampers

Designed and built 8 cheap, battery-powered, programmable IoT buttons that push recycling-line data to a database via API calls, giving operators a one-press way to log events.

How it works

From a button press on the line to an insight.

Employee on the recycling line

Sorting paper, cardstock, cans and plastics

Presses IoT Wi-Fi button

Battery powered and magnetic

Data collected in database

Sent by API call

Analytics insights

Processing metrics and dashboards

Custom

Programmable buttons.

#1

Highest grade in the class.

Wireless API calls

Events pushed straight to the database.

UX Design Project · DES 3131Figma · User research

UMN Parking & Transportation Website Redesign

  • UX Research
  • Figma
  • Usability Testing
  • IA
Before: 6 clicks to compare value and standard lots.
Slide: finding value versus standard rate lots takes 6 clicks on the current website

Before: 6 clicks to compare value and standard lots.

After: 3 clicks to find parking rates.
Slide: finding parking rates takes 3 clicks in the redesign

After: 3 clicks to find parking rates.

User research revealed that students couldn't find parking rates and were confused by the rules. I restructured the information architecture and redesigned the flow in Figma, then validated it with usability testing.

-50%

Reduction in clicks to reach key information.

Figma

High-fidelity redesign and prototype.

Partner

Offer from the parking and transportation manager to implement it.

Metro TransitHuman factors

Bus Bike Rack Human Factors Analysis

  • Human Factors
  • FMEA
  • HTA
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • User Testing
The front-mounted bus bike rack we studied.
A rider loading a bicycle onto the front rack of a Metro Transit bus

The front-mounted bus bike rack we studied.

A human factors analysis of bus bike rack usability and liability, producing an FMEA, a Hierarchical Task Analysis, and a heuristic evaluation to surface where riders struggle and where the transit agency carries risk.