♢⋄ Bringing you into Allison's creative universe, give me a second ...⋄♢

Allison Chan | Emily Carr University interaction design grad, UX/UI Designer & Researcher.
Currently a Service Designer for BC Government.

I like designing experiences that celebrate individuality by combining UX research, art, and new technologies! ♢⋄

Welcome to my creative universe ♢⋄

Here are some recent cool
♢⋄ accomplishments ⋄♢

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 ◈

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◈❖
UX Research, Data Visualization, Mapping, Co-creation & Co-design Facilitation

UX Research & Interactive Design

Moment Factory Award Winning Grad Thesis

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◈❖
UX Research, UX design, Interactive Design, Arduino, Processing

UX Research & Interactive Design

Exhibited at
‍Telus World of Science

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◈❖
UX Research, UX & Interactive Design, Website Development, Exhibition Facilitation, Arduino, Processing

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◈❖
UX Research, Data Visualization, Mapping, Co-creation & Co-design Facilitation, UI/UX, iterating, wireframing

More of my UI/UX design on Behance ⇨

Other interesting projects I've done ❖⍚

♢⋄ Data Journalism & Data Viz ⋄♢

Data Visualization

Various data visualization projects from 2019 to 2020.
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Skills◈❖
Data Journalism, d3.js, p5.js, Tableau

♢⋄ Design Research & Methods ⋄♢

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◈❖
Design Research, Co-creation Facilitation, Probe Kit Creation, Data Analysis

♢⋄ AR & Interactive Design ⋄♢

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◈❖
UI/UX, Augmented Reality, Aframe, AR.js