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About
Allison Chan
| Web3 Product Designer at
Shape
, previously Service Designer for the
Government of BC
I like designing
experiences that celebrate individuality
by combining UX research, art, and new technologies! ⟡⋄
Welcome to my creative universe ♢⋄
⟡ ⋄ Achievements the past few years⋄ ⟡
Moment Factory Graduation Award
2020
I won the top graduating award of my class in Emily Carr University for my grad thesis InterPulse. I am the only design student to have won this award over the years. ⇨
Emily Carr News Interview
2020
My grad thesis InterPulse was selectively featured on the Emily Carr news website, one of the only students of the graduating 2020 class to be interviewed. ⇨
Science World Exhibit
(E)ntity
2019
I had my own exhibit at Science World for my 3rd year project (E)ntity, a sensor-based interactive installation that visualized a person’s emotional state. ⇨
⟡ My Work ⟡
Service Design & UX/UI Design
Live Website with
Government of BC
BC Parks Website Redesign
Redesigning BC Park's website and leading UX research with citizens as a Service Designer for the Government of BC.
Live beta available at
https://beta.bcparks.ca/intro
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Skills
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Service Design, UX Research, UI/UX Design
UX Research & Interactive Design
Moment Factory Award
Winning Grad Thesis
InterPulse
Thesis project combining UX research and an interactive, collaborative art installation to translate biometric data into a digital visualization, while critiquing current biometric usage and exploring its social potential
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Skills
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UX Research, UX design, Interactive Design, Arduino, Processing
UX Research & Interactive Design
Exhibited at
Telus World of Science
(E)ntity
Interactive installation I exhibited at Telus World of Science on July 19, 2020, exploring the intersection of art-making with new technologies, using UX research to create a sensor device and data visualization of a person's emotions
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Skills
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UX Research, UX & Interactive Design, Website Development, Exhibition Facilitation, Arduino, Processing
UI/UX Design & Research
With
Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster
Health Design Lab Pharmacogenetics
Working as a UX Researcher for the Digital Technology Supercluster Pharmacogenetics Project at the Health Design Lab to develop a research methods and report of quantitative and qualitative user research to improve PGx education and implementation for clinicians
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Skills
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UX Research, Data Visualization, Mapping, Co-creation & Co-design Facilitation
UI/UX Design & Research
Letters of Reflection
Self-directed health design project at Emily Carr, where I developed a web interface for a collection of immigrant stories on their experiences to reflect immigration’s social impacts, through user-centred research (mapping, co-designing, and UX/UI prototyping)
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Skills
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UX Research, Data Visualization, Mapping, Co-creation & Co-design Facilitation, UI/UX, iterating, wireframing
Other interesting projects I've done ❖⍚
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Data Journalism & Data Viz
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Data Visualization
Various data visualization projects from 2019 to 2020.
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Skills
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Data Journalism, d3.js, p5.js, Tableau
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Design Research & Methods
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Data as a Commons
Developed research methods to investigate society’s relationship with data and created a speculative future of data as a commons by designing a probe kit, a sensitizing probe, and a co-creation workshop
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Skills
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Design Research, Co-creation Facilitation, Probe Kit Creation, Data Analysis
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AR & Interactive Design
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Gratitude Gallery (AR)
Developed an interactive augmented reality exhibition with Aframe and AR.js that fosters discussion of the importance of gratitude using community-based online submissions ⇨
Skills
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UI/UX, Augmented Reality, Aframe, AR.js
Follow my 3D work on Twitter ⇨
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