Spherical

Greetings hiring team at Spherical! I hope this collection of projects illustrates the level of work I would be pleased to bring to you. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have questions or would like more details on anything! -A

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Complex interface work

UX and HCI work is about finding the user model that threads a needle between technical possibility, social responsibility and business constraints. I cannot post the design artifacts from this work online, but here are some "end states" from complex work I led the last few years at VRChat:

Pronouns and user profiles:
How do you design a pro-social tool that respects gender and identity in a world that is also pseudo-anonymous?
Age Verification System:
How do you facilitate trust in an environment where everything is performance?
Groups System:
How do you find your people?
Markeplace and Sales:
How do economies work with fandoms vs "content?"

This work on social systems in particular has been a special interest for me for more than 15 years:

• 2011: Architecture and Design for Virtual Conferences: A Case Study
MDPI Future Internet 3, no 3: 175-184

• 2013: Experience Catalysts and Architecture: Towards a New Tradition
2013 eCAADe Conference on Future Traditions:
Rethinking Traditions and Envisioning the Future in Architecture through the Use of Digital Technologies

Mapping

2011: MoCoMapps - An Experiment in Crowdsourcing both Data and Applications for Mobile Services – IBM Research Report
Michael Muller, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen Levy, Daniel Gruen, Reid Priedhorsky, Andrew Sempere

• The Maptool: Deep Maps, Authorship and Narrativizing Physical Spaces

Multi‑disciplinary collaborations

All of my best work is collaborative. I particularly enjoy applying design strategies to the development of unique experiences for novice and non-technical stakeholders. Much of my work has been done in the academic, art and performance contexts where, in addition to traditional UX and UI design, we need to account for particular audiences and contexts that suit a performance mode.

Artifacts that demonstrate process and outcomes

In addition to design, I am a full-stack developer and often carry the process from concept all the way through to implementation.