About Me

  • Full Name:Jessica Applegate
  • Phone:Email me
  • UW Email:japple0@uw.edu

Hi!

I'm Jess, a first year Human-Centered Design & Engineering Master's student at UW. I'm a researcher by day, cat lady by night. On this site, you will find my research works, UX projects, selected writing, R plots, and other works that I am proud of!

I'm also a big sister, health equity advocate (psst I'm working on a project w/ UW Medicine's Equity Office rn), lover of digital media, and a gym rat.

My Resume

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  • Work Experience

  • Research Assistant

    UW Medicine, Equity Office - 2024 - Current

    Collaborator on the Equity Blueprint 3.0, integrating participatory design and user-centered research approaches.

  • UX Researcher & Project Manager

    HCDE Project- 10/2024 - 12/2024

    Delivered an end-to-end UX research project for an AR/VR concept in a 10-week Agile sprint.

  • Research Lead

    Georgia State University - 2023 - 2024

    Executed a funded study under GSU’s Gerontology Institute to evaluate age-friendly supports and barriers using qualitative methods.

  • Research Assistant

    Georgia State University - 01/2023 - 01/2024

    Managed participant recruitment, scheduling, and logistics to ensure smooth research processeses.

    Updated behavioral tasks as needed, assisted during preliminary participant assessments, and recorded research sessions for subsequent coding.

    Visualized and presented data using R at GSU’s Psychology Research Conference (2023)


  • Education

  • Master's in Human-Cenetered Design & Engineering

    University of Washington - 2024 - 2026

    Relevant Courses: User-Centered Design, Usability Studies, Experimental Research Methods

  • Bachelor's in Psychology, minor Sociology

    Georgia State University - 2018 - 2024

    Graduated Summa Cum Laude

    Honors Coursework:

    Advanced Research Design & Analysis, Psychopathology & Abnormal Psychology, Sociology of Health & Illness, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Psychology of Aging

Expertise

Research

Skilled researcher with 3 years of experience.

Data Visualization & Analysis

I work mainly with R for all things data-related.

UX Methodologies

As a student of UX, I'm constantly expanding my UX toolkit and skillset.

Skills

Research Methodologies90%

R80%

HTML/CSS75%

Human-Centered Design100%

Statistics70%

Data Management85%

Work

LinkedIn Posts

Recent and notable posts on my LinkedIn.

January 2025

AI & Health Outcomes

Using R, I performed a spatial analysis to examine the impacts of AI on health outcomes across the country.

December 2024

Touring the Brooks & PATH Offices

My graduate program afforded me the opportunity to tour offices around Seattle. I got to learn about the work teams at Brooks & PATH teams are doing and how they use HCI & Human-Centered Design in their work.

January 2025

My Journey into Front-End Development

Quick LinkedIn post about my experience so far building this website and learning about Front-End Development!