iPhone App
Design Director -- UI/UX, Caeden
The Caeden app syncs to the Sona Connected Bracelet to track your daily activity, help you de-stress and keep your wellness in balance. More than just your average fitness tracker, the Caeden app tracks Active Time and features Resonance, a science-based breathing meditation originally developed for astronauts to improve their resilience to stress.
I led the design of the Caeden app, which entailed development of the product concept and interactive brand identity as well as the UI/UX design, prototyping, user testing and coordination with multidisciplinary teams. We aimed to create an elegant, minimal interface which complemented the existing photo-based brand identity and evoked a sense of calm while processing and presenting a variety data analyses. The UI design was supported by Jessie Zo and MacGregor Harp. The Resonance pacer animations were implemented by Young Sang Cho. The final app was implemented by Intrepid.
“It’s clear Caeden’s team had the right ideas about building an interface…the app itself is well designed and very intuitive overall.” - Ruth Reader, Fast Company
Download on the App Store.
Sona and app trailer videos courtesy of Caeden.
2016
iPad App
Co-founder & Design Lead, TKOH Inc.
TKOH created Totem in response to a pressing need to preserve the stories of our families and loved ones. Totem began as a simple idea for a visual way to record oral histories — with a soft presence and an intuitive interface usable by young and old alike. Through research, prototyping and the generous support of the Knight Foundation, Totem evolved into a complex, multimedia tool that not only records audio, but also serves as an aid for nurturing conversation and storytelling. The end result is a collection of beautifully crafted videos that capture your loved ones’ experiences and personalities in a way that can be archived and shared with friends, family, and generations to come.
With the name Totem, we envisioned a user experience and design that would evoke the feeling that a story was being virtually preserved and encapsulated as a cherished object (rather than a stack of digital files, so easily misplaced and forgotten).
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Generously supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge
2015
iPad App
Design Lead, Potion
This project is the interactive edition of Josef Albers' masterwork Interaction of Color. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Download on the App Store.
Trailer courtesy of Yale University Press.
Photos courtesy of Potion.
Yale University Press
New Haven, CT
2013
iPad and iPhone Apps
Designer, KidKit
The ShapeKit app is a space for learning and play like a room full of building blocks. Through hands-on exploration, spatial problem-solving, concentration and experimentation, ShapeKit’s open set of tools allow children to visualize their growing understanding of the world and learn about the logic behind mechanical features, such as how joints move and how shapes relate to one another. Early and experienced learners alike can explore with color and shapes, build characters and bring their creations to life with special effects and simple animations.
ShapeKit's visual stye was inspired by early 20th century artists and designers who created objects for children following modernist ideals for shaping a better future through rational, universal forms -- such as the geometric shapes and bright colors found in the work of Bauhaus artists like Paul Klee and Ladislav Sutnar.
"Inspired By Bauhaus Design, ShapeKit Lets Kids Create Gorgeous Animations." - TechCrunch
"Bauhaus-Inspired iPad App Teaches Kids Colors And Shapes."
- Fast Company Design
"Educators and parents should just stop reading right now and go download this amazing app." ★★★★★
- Smart Apps For Kids
Featured Kids App on the App Store
2015
iPad App
Co-creator & Design Lead, caroline+young
mem:o is a data visualization tool that enables users to track data, add notes and tags, and view data collectively on a list or calendar. The app was intended for casual documentation of personal data -- for picking up on one's own habits and trends, rather than executing complex calculations. For my partner Young Sang Cho and I, mem:o was an early exploration of how an interface can work and how data can feel, beyond the skeuomorphic, button-based conventions of the time. Its visual style was inspired by the kind of bold minimal graphics and typography often found in print design, particularly screenprinting.
In our design process we embraced somewhat chaotic moments, such as when unrelated data circles sit together on the Home screen. As this was how we often encountered our own notes and numbers jotted in notebooks, we believed that these kinds of ‘accidents’ could have a welcome presence in the digital world as well.
"A Simple Data Visualization Tool for Design Lovers" - TechCrunch
"21 Best-Designed Apps of 2013" - Fast Company Co.Design
"Mem:o adds beautifully crafted visualisation tools to the standard journaling idea." - Best New Apps for Tablets and Smartphones, MSN Tech UK
"This looks fab...an interesting spin on organising your weeks." - 20 Best Apps of the Week, The Guardian
Featured Productivity App on the App Store
2013
iPad App
Design Lead, Potion
This issue of Biblion, the digital publication for the New York Public Library, focuses on the literary writings of the family of Mary Shelley and contemporary themes inspired by their work. To learn more about Biblion, please visit Potion.
Download on the App Store.
Trailer courtesy of NYPL.
New York Public Library
New York, NY
2012
Interactive Exhibit
Senior Designer, Potion
The What's In Your Blood? table allows young learners at the Museum of Science and Industry to explore the contents of a giant blood vessel through microscope-like viewfinders. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago, IL
2009
iPad App
Design Lead, Potion
This iPad app allows you to easily access hours of beautiful HD video short stories and full-length episodes from the Smithsonian Channel broadcast network. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Smithsonian Channel
New York, NY
2012
Interactive Exhibit
Senior Designer, Potion
Shop Life is the Tenement Museum's inaugural digital exhibit. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Photos courtesy of Potion
Tenement Museum
New York, NY
2012
Interactive Installation
Senior Designer, Potion
The Eyewitness to Genocide installation at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum challenges visitors to learn more and take action against genocide today. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Watch Potion's video.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington DC
2009
iPad App
Design Lead, Potion
Biblion: The Boundless Library is the New York Public Library's inaugural digital publication. The first issue in the series offers an unprecedented look into one of their most treasured collections -- thousands of documents and artifacts from the 1939 New York World's Fair. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Download on the App Store.
Trailer courtesy of NYPL.
New York Public Library
New York, NY
2011
Interactive Exhibit
Senior Designer, Potion
The Bell Labs Global Whiteboard is comprised of eight interactive HD screens located in the lobby of the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs corporate headquarters. With a playful visual interface inspired by the many whiteboards that Bell Labs scientists have used for early sketches of extraordinary innovations such as the telephone and transistor, the Global Whiteboard allows visitors direct access to nearly every article published by Bell Labs since 1897 -- over 80,000 publications and 25,000 patents. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Watch Potion's video.
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Murray Hill, NJ
2011
Website
Visual Designer
Studioneat.com's inaugural design showcased the studio's elegant suite of original products and apps. I aimed to emphasize the role of partners Tom and Dan as the friendly auteurs who openly share their motivations, processes and failures behind the products, and to highlight their mantra of simplicity in the design.
Studio Neat
New York, NY
2011
Interactive Exhibit
Senior Designer, Potion
The Memory Pool at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust allows visitors to access tens of thousands of personal photos and anecdotes of families before World War II. The Museum aimed to create an interactive experience that evoked the vivacity of everyday lives before the strike of tragedy. To learn more, please visit Potion.
Watch Potion's video.
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Los Angeles, CA
2010
