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  • The Best Story in All of Sports

    This is the story of how I produced my first YouTube documentary… My early twenties have been a roller coaster so far. Over the past 3 years, I have been on the receiving end of some of the greatest opportunities I’ve ever had and meanwhile experienced lower mental states than my younger self could comprehend. …

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  • Redesigning a Local News Platform

    The following article is based on a UX report of the TAPinto website (attached below) For this project, I selected a local news provider to investigate their product and see how it can be improved. The reason why I wanted to examine a local news provider is because of their importance to democracy and the…

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  • How Backcasting Can Change Your Life

    Let’s Change the Way We Dream We all have dreams as a kid, whether big or small, they all come and go, and if we’re lucky we hold on to some dreams long enough to make them a reality. Something I wish I had learned earlier as a kid was the role I play in…

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  • Why We Should Make More Authentic Content

    Businesses can’t afford to overlook the power of user experience (UX). Whether it’s a website, a mobile app, a physical product, or even a customer service interaction, every touchpoint shapes how people perceive a brand. I believe mainstream media in America has lost sight of the importance of UX within content creation. Content is often…

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  • Phenomenology & Visualization: The Power of Highlighting Subjective Experience

    My God, I’m Alive! In 2024, practically every waking second, we have access to life-changing information thanks to advances in technology. Yet our pursuit of deep understanding is often forgotten due to the profit-focused design of media technology. Perhaps the most common design quality of media technologies are systems that incite repeated use of the…

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  • Creating A Scientific Visual

    My goal here was to simplify a broad topic into small but memorable chunks. I used AI as an ideation tool to come up with this topic because I did not have any strong personal scientific interests that I thought could be made into an infographic. The only information it helped me with was the…

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  • Why do we Text & Drive?

    Why do we Text & Drive?

    Texting and driving is a strange behavior. We know it can be the first domino in a series of moments that lead to our death and risk the lives of others, yet we still do it, willingly and often. How incredibly irrational of us supposedly logical and intelligent humans. Well, the truth is, we’re not…

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  • Understand the World through Birthday Cakes

    Birthday cakes explain the world quite well, especially if your name is Joseph Pine II. In 1998, Pine published an article about an emerging economy in the world, the experience economy. Pine argued that economists had typically ‘lumped’ in experiences as a part of the service industry, yet, consumers “unquestionably desire experiences, and more and…

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  • Designing a Better World w/ AI

    As AI becomes further and further entangled with the human experience, being able to identify what humans are superior at in comparison to AI is increasingly important. One of these traits recently became apparent to me through viewing Neil Degrasse Tyson’s podcast with philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers.  Chalmers’ most recent research is concerned…

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