Research Projects
User Experience Related Projects
Plant Care App
Plant Care App
A user experience research and design projectThis is a user experience research and design project that aimed to provide a plant care application for beginners. This app provides users with customized gardening tips according to the home environment. The key functions include identifying a plant by name or photo, checking if a plant is recommended to grow in the user’s home environment condition, setting customizable reminders to take care of the plants regularly, etc.
- UX research, UX design, Data analysis
Project Owner: Jing Li
Pokemon World
Pokemon World
A Virtual Reality Game for temporary visual-spatial memoryThis is a research project that utilized Virtual Reality technology for visual-spatial memory training among teenagers. Players are asked to walk/teleport around the world, kill the monster spider, and capture a pokemon.
In this project, I worked as the game designer and developer.
- UX research, UX design
Project Owner: Jing Li
Project BubbleMath
Project BubbleMath
A math game for visually-impaired childrenThis is a serious game design and development project. I teamed up with students from the Computer Science Department in this project.
I worked as the game user interface and user experience designer.
- UX research, UX design
User Experience & Graphic Design:
Jing Li
Game Development:
Federico Menozzi
Game Development:
Deven Desai
Sound Development:
Ryan Court
SCALE Website
SCALE Website
An NGO website design and implementation projectThe history of the Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) begins with its founding in the fall of 1989 when two Carolina undergraduate tutors, Lisa Madry and Clay Thorp, joined forces to mobilize and support college students who wanted to address the literacy needs of this country.
SCALE has been at the core of a robust network of campus-based literacy programs that fully involve students and their learners.
This is a website redesign project. I collected web data using Google Analytics and conducted interviews with target users to form a user needs analysis report. The website was redesigned to improve the information searching and browsing experience.
- UX research, UX design, Web development
Design & Development:
Jing Li
Datamatters website
Datamatters website
An NGO website design and implementation projectData Matters™ is a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series is sponsored by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, the National Consortium for Data Science, RENCI, and North Carolina State University.
This is an NGO website development project for Data Matters™ course promotion. The design and implementation are based on the target user interview results.
- UX research, UX design, Web development
Design & Development:
Jing Li
South BD Hub website
South BD Hub website
An NGO website design and implementation projectThe South Hub is part of a network of four regional Big Data Hubs, launched by the National Science Foundation and funded in part by host universities and other partners. Managed jointly by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the South Hub serves 16 states and the District of Columbia—from Texas to Delaware—with more than 1000 members from universities, corporations, foundations, and cities committing their support.
This is an NGO website development project for South BD Hub. The UI of this website follows the standard template and I optimized the sitemap and content of this website for SEO improvement.
- UX research, UX design, Web development
Design & Development:
Jing Li