I am a user experience designer.

Skills:

• User-centered design techniques, including
  • Participant observation, contextual analysis, and think-aloud
  • Interviewing and data coding
  • Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
  • Interaction design using flow, artifact, cultural, physical, and sequence models, decision-action and functional flow diagrams, function allocation, and cognitive models
• Rapid prototyping and testing with various tools, including
  • Photoshop/Illustrator/Image Ready
  • HTML/Javascript
  • 3d modeling software
• Building dynamic webpages and web services with javascript, PHP, AJAX, SQL, etc.

Education:

• MS in Human Computer Interaction
  Georgia Tech (2008)
  GPA: 4.0
• BS in Cognitive Science with a Specialization in Human Computer Interaction
  University of California, San Diego (2006)

Recent Projects:

• Work in progress – reminders for infrequent tasks
  Currently designing an ambient reminder tool for tasks that happen periodically but infrequently (e.g. changing A.C. filters, rotating tires, etc.). Read more on my blog: http://www.pamgriffith.net/portfolio/reminders
• Mobile site for financial news aggregation service
  Wireframed and built an html prototype of a mobile site for financial news with search and a multi-level category structure.
• Online collaborative 3d art (Master’s Project)
  Interviewed members of online art communities about collaborative projects to discover how people work together online and where things go wrong

Work Experience:

• Web Design and Development Freelancer – Self employed – January 2010-Present
  Various activities including wireframing and task flow design, css, javascript, html, and php (specifically wordpress) development, and mobile site development.
• Web Programmer – Metaplace – June 2008-December 2009
  Designed and built a myriad of AJAX interactions, javascript and html dialogs, and PHP pages and web services.
• Dell Research Assistantship – Georgia Tech/Dell – Spring 2007 and Fall 2007
  Interviewed and taped people using their home media centers, made projections about the sorts of things people need to improve these systems’ usability and utility.
• Web Programmer Intern – Areae (now Metaplace) – Summer 2007
  Built the first iteration of the http://www.metaplace.com website, including merging PHPBB into a Joomla installation.
• Web Programmer – Teams In Engineering Service program, UCSD – Summer 2006
  Talked to various stakeholders and laid the groundwork for the new team collaboration site in PHP with improved workflow and many new collaboration features.
• Forum Coordinator – Renderosity.com Blender 3d Forum – July 2005-present
  Organize and moderate the forum and associated gallery, download, and tutorial areas
• Integration Intern – Entriq, Carlsbad CA – Summer 2005
  Customized storefront with CSS for customers, rewrote storefront application in AJAX.
• Interface Design Intern – Tribeworks, San Francisco CA – Summer 2004
  Created XML themes for a PDA photo album.

Contact

Please feel free to contact me below or at pam@pamgriffith.net with questions or comments!