Project Type Archives

Integrated Agile UX processes into the monthly sprint cycles to hypothesize, validate and reduce risk in design iterations of the product. Facilitated a design and innovation focused culture with user centered processes. Modern, visual, fun user experience with responsive and fluid layout to make incentive programs easy to understand and enjoyable to use. The keyContinue reading “Limeade User Experience”

Social to-do list/challenge platform for using peer pressure to get things done. Points, social interactions and photos for a compelling fun experience. Released as an iPhone app (using PhoneGap) and a Windows Phone app. I was the PM on this app and worked with an awesome team including Greg Melander, Flynn Joffray, Nathan Roberton, CraigContinue reading “Dotastic – Fuse Labs”

Connect over shared interests expressed through beautiful post collages that take seconds to create. Managed Video Parties for massive real-time synchronous video watching experiences around shared interests. Worked with an awesome team that included Todd Newman, Stephen Coy and Flynn Joffray. So.Cl was in beta for a year and was finally released publicly in 12/2012. CheckContinue reading “SOCL Video Parties – Fuse Labs”

Microsoft Office on the web deeply integrated with Facebook pages and groups with instant personalization and frictionless collaboration. I was the PM on v2 of this project and worked with Andrez Turski and Shelly Farnham and we also authored this ICWSM paper. Docs.com

Location Based Augmented Reality game for serendipitous interactions with fellow commuters. I designed and prototyped this game as an HTML5 mobile app. Worked with Stephen Coy who worked on the Windows Phone version using XNA and Tien Suwandy who built the game backend. You can see an early prototype of the basic game engine here. And the codeContinue reading “Bus Defense AR game – Fuse Labs”

I was curious to see what checkin data looks like when aggregated across multiple venues of the same type. I put together this site which has some pre-configured venue-sets and depending on the URL used, they can either be viewed independently or be compared across multiple ones.   https://sameerhalai.com/projects/checkin/venues/aaplstorenearmsft/msftstoreall/

If you have a cat and have considered an automatic portioning cat feeder then you should consider the Super Feeder. I decided to hack mine to let me see track how much food is being fed to the cat, and how long the cat takes to finish her food. This project uses an arduino basedContinue reading “Tweeting Cat Feeder”

I worked on enabling chat integration between Facebook Chat and Windows Live Messenger. This was a massive feat involving lots of stakeholders. I managed the user experience and UI for the project working with a brilliant team that spanned the Windows Live backend and Facebook engineers. We also found elegant solutions for managing privacy implicationsContinue reading “Windows Live Messenger Facebook Chat”

I worked with Dr. Caroline R. Richardson and Prof. Paul Resnick on a fish-tank visualization of group pedometer counts. The goal was to see the influence of group dynamics on people’s response to being diligent about physical activity. The visualization relied on overall degradation of the fish-tank if most people were doing badly but itContinue reading “Pedometer visualization with a fish-tank”

What would a social experience in cars be like? In this exploration, Jim Laing and I conceptualized an intuitive interface with non-intrusive augmented reality to engage in a social experience with other people in cars around you.