ThredA shared travel-memory app for couples.
Couples travel together and still experience the day apart. Thred records each partner's path and photos and weaves them into one shared story.
During a study abroad program in Greece, I worked with two teammates to research problems tourists were facing, guerrilla-tested an AR concept, and pivoted when people liked the idea more than the product.
I led field research and interviews, built the persona and journey map, designed the interaction model in Figma, built a working live map with Claude Code, and ran usability testing.
Full case study (PDF) ↗How it unfolded
Final iteration
DayoutA mobile app for planning your day from community-made activities.
Dayout lets people build a day from community-made activities and 24-hour plans. I joined as a UX design and research intern, and I am currently interning here.
I interview experienced users and define the events behind the app's Amplitude funnels, which showed drop-off in onboarding and sign-up.
I design happy paths, run usability tests, and design new screens: onboarding, the home screen, and an AI create mode, now in development.
Usability testing
Three scenario tasks, each with an ideal path, then watching where real behavior diverged.
Screens
The Elite ImpactHow private aviation contributes to climate change, and what regulation could change.
A year-long capstone: I wrote a research paper on how private aviation disproportionately drives climate change, collected a year of public flight-tracking data, built forecasting models, and shipped an interactive website that I presented to a panel of advisors and industry experts.
I chose the topic after the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit made climate change feel urgent, and a study on celebrity private-jet emissions made it specific: the wealthiest emit far beyond their share, and private aviation is the clearest, most measurable example.
Each targets private aviation directly, with a real-world precedent to model against.
Restrict the shortest flights
Flights under an hour almost always have a train or car alternative. France's short-haul ban was the precedent.
Cap annual emissions per person
A yearly CO₂ budget for the heaviest individual emitters, so private travel counts against a limit like everything else.
Limit carbon-credit sales
Offsets let a flight read as neutral on paper. Limiting them keeps the real emissions in view.