PRODUCT DESIGNER & RESEARCHER - AXLAB, 2024–25
Magneto-haptic prototypes
Magnets, vibrations, and 3D printed channels producing real haptic feedback with no firmware. I modelled mechanisms and built motion-tracking software that made twenty iterations possible.
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20+
Prototype iterations in under 8 months
DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Bottom-Up Methodology
Axlab uses a bottom-up methodology. We explore interactions, ways of knowing, and mechanisms to better understand how things could work, before attaching a use-case.
CREATIVE COMPUTING CAPSTONE - UCHICAGO, 2025
Body of Play
an interactive experience that interrogates the ease with which we explore, manipulate, and impose expectations on the female body; employing a tactile, ritualistic interaction design
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Tools & Software
Unity3D, C#, Blender, ZBrush
CRITICAL DESIGN
Investigating acts of play
BoP renders the otherwise mundane act of play into something uncomfortable, but also intimate. It explores the cultural and psychological mechanisms that normalize bodily fragmentation and reconstruction.
UCHICAGO, 2023
MyBodyBuddy
A wellness app that behaves exactly like a wellness app, or does it? Speculative design built to make the manipulation legible from the inside rather than described from a distance. This is a parody simulation mobile app to make you think about whether that bodybuddy is really a friend.
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MOBILE APP DESIGN
Build the thing you are criticising.
A parody only works at full fidelity. Every stage was about making the simulation convincing enough that its logic becomes visible.
SOFTWARE AND OPERATIONS ENGINEER - 2024
Consulate of Colombia AI
The Colombian Consulate in Chicago faced several operational bottlenecks including high call volumes, repetitive questions, and frequent errors in bookings and document preparations. We developed an AI-powered chatbot to provide immediate, 24/7 assistance to users.
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20,000+
Users served annually
TOOLS
Python, Twilio API, OpenAI API
Conceptualized, strategized, then built the back end and integrated Whatsapp front-end
JUST POWERS & SPECULATIVE ENERGY FUTURES RESEARCH-CREATION PROJECT
EarthFortunes
If you are excited, worried, or unsure about future energy systems, Earth Fortunes allows you to ‘foretell’ the planet’s future using tarot cards outfitted with augmented reality (AR) visualization informed by the climate science
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UCHICAGO, 2023
Digital Metamorphosis
Unsolicited Instagram messages, treated as sociotechnical artefacts rather than noise. Three archetypes emerged from the archive, (Un)Natural Beauty, Masochism, Maternity, and each was given a body.
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VR Gallery
Unity VR gallery at augmented scale
INQUIRY
feminist media theory, digital identity performativity and posthuman embodiment
PRODUCT DESIGN AND STRATEGY- 2025-2026
Element Water Relaunch
Most filtration companies sell a spec sheet and let the fear do the rest. Element was rebuilt from the bottom up, so the question was never how to market water. It was what a water company should be made of.
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Multidisciplinary
Product design, 3D asset design, strategy and business operations, finance, branding
0->1
Relaunch & Rebrand
This existing water purification tech company needed to be relaunched with new products, new branding, a new website, new designs, and new ideas. We broke it down to the ground, then built it back up.
CRITICAL VIDEO GAME STUDIES
Decomposure
Decomposure is a unique apocalyptic organization game where players must navigate their survival within a confined, industrial room, relying on object-based text prompts to learn about their world.
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Unity3D
Full, playable video game designed in unity3D
Harriet Fisher
Made with love