TechBridgeWorld
The TechBridgeWorld initiative aims to facilitate collaborations between Carnegie Mellon University and developing communities around the world to design and implement creative technological solutions that will benefit development.
CMU plans to send students to rural communities around the world to engage in a study of the challenges faced by that community, and identifying and designing technology-solutions to address these 
challenges.
I worked in a team of five to design a collaborative tool to facilitate communication between a student abroad and a class at CMU in order to maximize the impact of a single student's travel.
We started with a blank slate and went through many usability methods, including contextual inquiry and design, heuristic evaluations, cognitive walkthroughs and think-aloud studies. The following is a brief listing 
of the work we did over the course of a semester:
- affinity diagramming to set project focus
- contextual interviews of various classroom learning scenarios
- contextual design
- paper prototyping
- heuristic evaluation
- low-fi prototyping in illustrator
- cognitive walkthrough
- think-aloud studies
- final prototype
- presentation
Palm Pilot Redesign