Joelle McDonald

How do you bring citizen science to people outside your reach? I redesigned Ocean First Institute's microplastics testing program to find out.

Learn about how I have improved the user friendliness of the documentation for NCAR's Internet of Things Weather Station

Introduction At the ATLAS institute I took a User Experience Design class built on a mission to select a space we have a passion for, conduct research to find a problem within it that a software could solve, and create a semi-functional prototype of that software solution in Figma. My selected passion space : Gardening My researched problem : Finding community with other gardeners that gets as excited about your plants' progress as you do My solution : Create a social app wit

In my Design Methods class we to created a pocket-sized gadget that would be used daily as a group project. I came up with the idea to create a contained key-holder that allowed a specific key to be released as needed while preventing jangling and disorganized keys. I suggested a lever based key release mechanism. Once we had a general design concept, I prototyped, iterated, and built a final demo version of the product. After I took pictures, my team made the slides to prese