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.
Collaborator on the Equity Blueprint 3.0, integrating participatory design and user-centered research approaches.
Delivered an end-to-end UX research project for an AR/VR concept in a 10-week Agile sprint.
Executed a funded study under GSU’s Gerontology Institute to evaluate age-friendly supports and barriers using qualitative methods.
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)
Relevant Courses: User-Centered Design, Usability Studies, Experimental Research Methods
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Honors Coursework:
Advanced Research Design & Analysis, Psychopathology & Abnormal Psychology, Sociology of Health & Illness, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Psychology of Aging
Skilled researcher with 3 years of experience.
I work mainly with R for all things data-related.
As a student of UX, I'm constantly expanding my UX toolkit and skillset.
Recent and notable posts on my LinkedIn.
Using R, I performed a spatial analysis to examine the impacts of AI on health outcomes across the country.
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.
Quick LinkedIn post about my experience so far building this website and learning about Front-End Development!