cAPP and HCI

I got into CMU's undergraduate HCI double major program! This happened awhile ago, sorry for the late update.

In the meantime, enjoy this bit of work I did is for an entrepreneurship class midterm group project (what a mouthful). What we came up with was 'cAPP,' a fit-all drug cap that would sense when the bottle was opened and sync with a smart phone application which keeps track of your medical schedule. Here are some of the rough mocks I did for the presentation that illustrate its function.

Sophomore year is nearly over. Just one more week of finals / projects, and I'll be done! Expect to see more work posted here once that happens.

On a tangent, I'll be working in Pittsburgh this summer. I've gotten a research opportunity at Pittsburgh Super Computing (PSC) and hopefully, will also be able to help a professor with some research. Looking forward to a productive break until junior year...

IS Milieux - Bikes...And POS?

This is a team project I contributed on during the fall semester. We designed and then prototyped a touch-enabled tablet point of sales (POS) system for an imaginary bike company called "Overmoyer." It is meant to be held by salespeople to assist in presenting products, registering customers, and processing transactions. It could also be considered a tool for customer relationships as well then.

 I'm lucky to have worked with such friendly and talented people! Our project ended up winning the "ISM Best Overall" in the class. Hooray for more mugs, chocolate, and certificates to bring back home.

I'll show you guys just what I worked on. Anything I don't mention was coded/designed by one of my teammates. They're seriously awesome.

Tablet is in landscape view. I wireframed the area you see on the right and created the mockup rating icons...And wrote the text! The bikes on the left and font choice was a more universal aspect of the POS system and was not designed/chosen by me.

The Felt Jetty bike description page. Now in portrait mode! 

This project marks my first exposure to using source code management (git). It was a confusing but interesting ride, and I'll only continue using such procedures. 67-272, a class I'm taking now, has my head all up in ruby, rails, git, and a slew of klingon language. More on that later. Instead, have this logo I made for the POS team project!

We named our team "Global Eucalyptus Consulting." Hence the magical eucalyptus leaf, soon to take over the world with the power of technology.

Visualizing Complex Information - Imaginary Book

A bit of a delayed update, but here's some work from a class I took during the first half of this semester. It's called 67-260: Visualizing Complex Information, taught by the amazing Karen Berntsen. It's main focus was on getting us comfortable with visual hierarchy. We had a single project that just kept expanding...So, to start at the beginning, we were given this mass of text and tasked with organizing it into meaningful categories.

Everyone came up with different categories, since our professor didn't give us very precise directions (on purpose). After that, we had to organize the categories into a mock table of contents for a made up book.

Next, we then had to make a mock poster advertising the fake book! Although my classmates were given the same image resources to draw upon, I was the only to use this image of a lake as "Earth."

Finally, the last task was turning everything into a mock mobile app and website. The visual theme had to remain consistent, so I stuck with my black and white (plus blue/green) color scheme. Here's what I came up with in the end:

Keep in mind, all this was done in a very short amount of time. Total class time was 8 weeks, with maybe 6 of those weeks being actual "go" time.

Dentistry Delivery (Part 2)

I continued to keep working on dentistry logos for quite a bit. A whole lot of reworking. The first batch (see "Slices of Summer") helped us determine a theme. Here are my explorations into that theme.

Brainstorming, part 2!

A friendly poke becomes a viable logo

Refining that subtle toothbrush design

 There's a lot I just don't have room to show. I tried to show the highlights! (The final design I submitted to my client isn't even shown here) Here's just one of many more in-depth adjustments I made to a logo that almost made it to the end.

But which wiggle looks best?

Also, update on Kaylune (http://www.kaylune.com/). We've opened Closed Beta and have been testing vigorously with our beta users. It'll close on Nov. 1, and then that's when the real work starts. All I can say is that there are exciting developments! I'm loving the direction we're going in.

Slices of Summer

Here's a taste of what I've been doing this summer, and there is quite a variety. Expect another update sometime later (as some work I have done cannot be shown yet - it would ruin the surprise!)

Initial logo work for family dentistry

Main world map for Kaylune

Kaylune - Logo Design Final

And so, Kaylune's logo is finally complete! Working with vectors was tough at first, but as I got closer to finishing, everything felt more natural. After meeting with the owners after presenting the second image, they gave me some pointers (wanted world in background, thought letters looked messy) and I worked with them.
The final product is the last image. Purposely small, to protect the image from being misused on sites without permission.

Kaylune - Logo Design Roughs

Rough concepts made in Photoshop while drawing up rough logos for Kaylune.com! Worked closely with owners of site...took awhile till everyone agreed on one. Phew. Next, making the final one in Illustrator.

Misc. graphics [2011-2013]

Destiny Carousel icon concepts

Kaylune kickstarter banner

Online interactive flash image

2CAST vlog image

Online comic cover

Online interactive flash image can also be seen here:
http://elestoque.org/2012/01/17/entertainment/greek-week-portal/
(Note: it may take a few seconds to load)

Journalism Design samples [2011-2012]

Page Concepts #1

Completed infographs/images

Column Visual

Journalism Page samples [2011-2012]

Volume 42 Issue 8

Volume 42 Issue 7

Volume 42 Issue 5

Volume 42 Issue 7

Volume 42 Issue 6

Visuals by Angela Liu. Page Layout designed in collaboration between me and teammates.
Read current and past issues of El Estoque here: http://issuu.com/elestoque

ROP Graphic Design Class [2010-2011]

DECA event poster

BIO AP project mock ad

Magazine Design

US Health Care handout