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Work in User Research

High-impact research that I offer to product teams. More details about my work experience are available on my resume. You can also explore my academic projects. Feel free to connect if you'd like to talk more about anything listed here!

Discovery & strategy

Requirements DiscoveryQualitative

Exploring user needs and pain points to guide future design work.

Interviews, journey mapping, focus groups, design studio workshops

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Large-scale SurveysQuantitative

Driving product decisions with data from large-scale surveys of needs and attitudes.

SUS, SUPR-Q, UX-Lite, NPS, descriptive statistics, chi-square

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Evaluation & testing

Usability BenchmarkingQuantitative

How iterative design updates influence usability over time. On cihi.ca: +20% task success, +395% on methodology-finding tasks.

Task-based testing, metadata analysis, t-tests, ANOVA, thematic analysis

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Concept TestingQualitative

De-risking design decisions by validating needs with wireframes and prototypes.

First-impression capture, conceptual walkthroughs, laddering, comparative evaluations

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Usability TestingQualitative

Uncovering pain points and improvement opportunities through product assessments.

Think-aloud, task observation, post-task questionnaires, affinity mapping, severity ranking

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Build & service design

Persona IntegrationTechnical

An automation module that processes user data and metadata to group insights and inform personas.

Python, data scraping, standardization, natural language processing

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Service Design Case StudyQualitative

Investigating design, dev, and PM workflows to recommend cross-functional improvements.

Collaborator interviews, scenario mapping, dot-voting, affinity diagramming, service blueprinting

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Academic

Specialized in accessibility and usable security & privacy.

Paper Publications

Peer-reviewed contributions on human-centered design and usable security.

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Talks & Workshops

Invited talks and presentations at HCI conferences and workshops.

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Remote Healthcare Toolkit

A design toolkit guiding remote healthcare technology for older adults.

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