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Connor Riley
Master's Candidate, Class of 2010
UC Berkeley School of Information -
Project Bamboo
Spring-Summer 2009Project Bamboo seeks to advance arts and humanities research through development of technology services. My role on the project has been user-research focused; I have conducted interviews with numerous faculty, developed user narratives and personas, and will be working to develop an atlas which help to translate scholars' individual stories to tehcnology requirements.
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Collaboration
Spring 2009I worked with Morten Hansen, Harvard Business School professor and author of the new book Collaboration to design and implement the book's website.
The site includes a full user management system created in PHP and MySQL, to allow readers to take surveys from the book, and for collecting and analyzing the survey data. -
The Farmer's Market Explorer
User Interface Design
Spring 2009As a course project, I developed this prototype mobile application in a team of two. We followed user-cenerted design methodologies to develop an application which enables farmer's market patrons to post reviews, pictures, and information about what they buy and which farmers they buy from. Technologies used include PHP, MySQL, AJAX, and the Google Maps API.
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University Village Energy Management
Information Systems and Service Design
Fall 2008Working on a team of four, I helped plan a prototypical
service to help residents and administrators of an apartment complex visualize and track power usage. We followed service-design methodologies, including requirements gathering, use-case modeling and service blueprinting as a bottom-up design strategy, as well as top-down strategies to envision how the system could be made compelling for the individual user. -
Information & Service Design
Fall 2009I worked to update the design and maintain content of this XML and XSLT-driven website for the ISD group at the UC Berkeley School of Information.