Welcome to My Portfolio
Rie Kamikubo
UX Concepts
Selected projects that I was involved during my school years in San Diego and Tokyo :)
E-NEWSLETTER
Meals & Steals E-newsletter
​2012
This is my favorite project at the San Diego 6. It was my first time designing e-newsletters. I made a visual mockup with Photoshop and later designed with HTML and CSS. I was able to work on the design from the start in the professional design environment. I had a great time working with and getting feedback from professional graphic designers.
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Kimono Dressing and Rental
​2012
This website advertises the Kimono Dressing service. I worked on the front-end web design in structuring and styling the website layout. I created new site graphics and manipulated images to fit the content of the website. I also wrote the content in Japanese and English to attract a wide range of users.
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UCSD Lost and Found Online Reporting
​2012
This online system allows users to report lost and found items online and check the inventory of reported information to facilitate the process of finding the lost item. This project helped me become familiar with ASP.net and Microsoft Visual Studio for creating forms that could store information and managing the database.
Shopping in Tokyo
​2010
This website is from my final team project for a Cognitive Aspects of Multimedia Design course. We designed it for a purpose of guiding Japanese travelers who plan to shop but do not know where to go to find what they need. The different types of stores in Japan are listed on the navigation bar.
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Bouncing
​2011
It was exciting yet challenging when my team was working on designing a website called Bouncing for a real client who owns the bounce house business. We ended up making a fully working website from scratch. We also conducted user studies including interviews, competitive analysis, and storyboading to understand user needs and design a website that responds to those needs. We implemented Google Map API to design a Find Directions page. The client and my team were very satisfied with the final product.
San Diego 6 Meals&Steals | Election
​2012
One of the job responsibilities as the Graphics Intern for San Diego 6 the CW was to work with the Clickability Content Management System for creating, formatting, maintaining, and publishing web site content. Using my knowledge of web programming languages, I created and managed the content in the Meals & Steals section. I also designed and published new web pages under the Election category.
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WEBSITE
"Sense of Touch"
​2011
I created an interactive hand device which was designed to emphasize the power of touch and how it influences our connection with others. When you press your hand on this device, a light glows in the pictures of people holding hands presented in the slideshow. I programmed the Arduino device to manipulate the slideshow, and the device is located inside the hand model. Pressor sensors were utilized to measure how much pressure was made when the hand model was pressed. This project was done as part of my art and technology course but gave me trainings on electric circuits.
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"Pure Sleepi"
​2015
I attended the Mono App Hacakathon and as a team, created this pillow that will track your sleep patterns, keep the record in a mobile app, and wake you up during light sleep. It has sensors that can even detect the sound of snore. My repsonsibility was to form a design scenario to present to the judges based on identified user problems/needs when taking a quick nap or a good night sleep. Ideally, the pillow will adjust your body to stop you from snoring.
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"Good Morning Grandma"
​2015
This work was done as a part of Sony's "Go For It" Hackathon, which i received a second prize. My design concept was to connect the older generation living by themselves with their family without feeling monitored. My inspiration was taken from my grandma's action of opening her curtains every morning, which was signifying her safety for her neighbors. I wanted her everyday action to impact the life of the young ones in a way to seamlessly track her safety in the morning. I used sensors called Mesh to detect when one opens the curtain, and the information was sent through a server to open curtains at distant locations.
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"AR Classroom with Attention Highlight"
​2014
The concept of this work was to create enhanced communication in the learning environment by allowing students to visually place marking symbols over the parts they are attended on the teaching materials. The students can use the symbols as highlights to notify the teachers e.g. which part they are troubled or confused. As an intern at Sony's Interaction Technology Department during my first year of master's program, I was given a project to design systems that utilize gaze tracking. I was able to incorporate my knowledge in interaction design to proceed from the ideation process via user research and brainstorming sessions to prototyping and user testing.
Gaze-Controlled Navigation Markers for Web Scanning
​2015
As part of my master's thesis work, I developed gaze-controlled navigation aids which served to facilitate scanning of important regions located across a web page. I designed visual markers for users with low vision to follow the provided navigation information to effectively move their gaze so that they can quickly grasp the whole picture. By having the gaze-based features, they have more control in tracking the markers under their limited field of view.
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