Utilizing participatory design principles to design an information experience, I worked in a small team to co-design a smart wristband. By identifying vulnerabilities and conducting ideation exercises such as story mapping, we arrived at a device that would allow users to keep in touch via emoji without use of a phone. Developing a paper prototype, we conducted usability tests with participatory subjects and evaluated the subjective opportunities and affordances of our design.

Visually representing our design for the Relay Wristband, we storyboarded an animated video depicting the interaction design of our product and its affordances. Working from the initial iteration of the storyboards and narration, I edited the text draft and animations demonstrating the wristband, recording the audio and importing to Animaker to produce the final cut. The final video was shown to the following year's class as a previous year's example.

As member of the design group meta-tecture, I created a concept-schema taxonomy and ontology for in-home smart-HVAC systems, relating internal concepts and calling them to the page with SPARQL. In applying metadata taxonomy and ontology systems to an e-commerce platform development environment, we also studied how relationship ontologies are being applied to voice-control interaction design in next-generation smart devices.