Songflow

How to improve the experience of finding and playing music? My thesis project looks into using tags to explain and refine music recommendations.

Election Night Map

Visual and interaction design, and development for abcnews.com Election Night Map, November 2008. The map showed the President, Senate, House and Governor race, and the poll closing times for each states.

Poll Tracker

Design and development for "ABC News Poll Tracker", a tracker that displayed multiple polls in one screen, so users could compare the general trends for each day, week or month of the election.

Backyard Economy

Design and development for "The Backyard Economy", a map with detailed data on the economy of each state.

Delicious DNA

"Delicious DNA": Delicious DNA is a visualization tool that looks for user compatibility through their bookmarks. It searches for users that have a common bookmark, and maps their tags with color to help find users that have similar interests.

Grow a Plant

"Grow a Plant": an application that allows users to draw a tree and send the animation of tree being drawn ("growing") to a friend.

I, you, he, she...

"I, you, he, she" uses live questions from Yahoo! Answers to generate an overall, up-to-the-minute impression of people's raw feelings and thoughts on the network.

Searchscapes

Each person constructs his/her image of the city. This image is made out of facts, memories, experiences, stories, news - mostly invisible data, and not only of architecture, buildings and streets.

"SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN" is an attempt to create a tridimensional map of Manhattan, using existing data from the web. The objective is to compare the city's "physical spaces" and "information spaces" (search results). This is an attempt to materialize information: to give it dimension and physicality.

X-Pod PlayOff

"PlayOff" is a GameLab card game for LEGO, to be played with the X-Pod. As an intern at Gamelab, I worked on the visual design for cards, rules, etc.