Portfolio
a few vignettes
from my work in
UX design and education
First Notes Music Lessons
First Notes is a music scheduling app prototype I created for a hypothetical music school based upon my experience with customer pain points from my years of teaching music lessons. I acted as lead UX designer and researcher, including wireframing, usability testing, interviewing, data analysis, and lo-fi and hi-fi prototyping.
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"Planet Sax:
26 Études for Maturing Students"
In 2018, I self-published a 52-page color illustrated book of musical studies for intermediate saxophone students. I created the concept, composed the music, wrote the copy, designed the book's formatting, and promoted it post-production with a video and advertisements. I worked hand-in-hand with creatives at all stages of the process to complete the project (illustration, book design, SEO experts, print production companies, recording engineers, voiceover artists).
All illustrations by Andy Council : View his work.
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Published 2018. For sale on Amazon and on my other website
Practice Pet
Gamification has revolutionized education. I wanted to make a prototype for an app that could motivate students to do something they dread most: practicing their instruments! Users mark their practice and progress in their sessions each day in order to "feed" their practice pet. I worked as UX lead and graphic designer.
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Feed Sadie the Violinosaurus by clicking through the gallery.
Equity in Access to Music Education
Equitable access to music education for English language learners is a challenge our education system is working hard to meet every day. Having worked in linguistically diverse school districts, I have created a number of bi-lingual and tri-lingual learning materials for my students to give students learning English as much support as possible in order to participate fully in our music classrooms.
