Choice Empowers
Home building site for affordable housing. Improving an existing home building web platform to help families design their home. Focus on how technology can give design choice to clients and create pride in their home.
My Role: Lead UX Designer + Researcher
Methods: User interviews, field studies, card sorting, usability testing, paper prototyping, rapid prototyping
Enlace
Rental platform for finding long-term housing moving abroad. Makes moving easier and safer for tenants and landlords while also redistributing wealth to affordable housing projects.
Project for Master’s thesis: the culmination of work on gentrification, housing, and technology. Incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs.
My Role: Co-founder, Lead Designer
Methods: Data review, social media analysis, housing policy analysis, user and expert interviews, rapid prototyping
Peatoniños
Project to increase access to public space for children in areas of the Mexico City with little green space. Transformation of an alleyway and plaza into public spaces
My Role: Participatory Process Designer: planned and implemented 8 community design activities
Methods: Contextual inquiry, field study, participant observation, surveys, interviews, participatory design workshops, communal mapping, traffic count
Proyectos Productivos
Digitization of a non-digital application process to create better access to city funding and programs for small business owners in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. Focus on improving application efficiency for program coordinators and increasing applicant trust in the program
My Role: UX Designer + Researcher
Methods: Process mapping, field study, user interviews, interoperability analysis, data review
Participatory Models in Housing
Analysis of participatory design methodologies in current affordable housing projects on tribal lands in the US.
My Role: Lead Researcher
Methods: Field studies, user interviews, literature review and synthesis, policy analysis
Mi Escuela, Mi Barrio
The first step in a master plan to make streets more accessible and safe for children in a neighborhood in the center of Mexico City. The painting of 11 elementary school facades and the streets in front of them to create space for students to inhabit.
My Role: Participatory Process Designer - conducted 11 mapping and painting exercises to understand children perspective + start to retake the street
Methods: Contextual inquiry, field study, interviews, participatory design workshops, communal mapping