Skills
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UX Research
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Survey Creation
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Interviews
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Qualitative Research
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Usability testing
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Quantitative Research
- Ethnography
- Heuristic Evaluation
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Prototyping
- Wireframes
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UI Design
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Accessibility
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Programming (Java, PHP, Javascript, Perl, Python)
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Statistical Analysis (JMP, SPSS, R)
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Database Management (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server 2000)
Andrea Johnson, PhD
UX Designer | Research Scientist
User Experience Researcher
Intel Labs
June 2015-present
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Exploratory ethnographic research to identify new technology applications, along with identification of systemic factors that might affect adoption; translation of front-end research into technology implications; collaboration on new technology ideation and design; and user testing of designs and prototypes
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Serve as research mentor providing guidance to junior team mates; evangelize grounding our UX work in design thinking and effectively bringing our stakeholders along through the process
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Serve as peer mentor creating connections for new Intel employees; helping them create integration goals and objectives to ramp up and be productive within their teams across Intel.
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Participate in STEM outreach activities to serve as technical advisor for Edison workshops; mentoring for K-12 and undergraduate/graduate students on career and life planning skills
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STEM mentor for undergraduate/graduate students
Maker | Technical Mentor (temp assignment)
July 2015 - present
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Serving as a technical mentor for the Make Tomorrow initiative to provide STEM and making access to urban and rural students in collaboration with the National Urban League.
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Creating maker projects for STEM tutors to engage students; includes project design, implementation, documentation to www.makershare.com
Rotation Engineer | User Experience Researcher
August 2013 - May 2015
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Applying HCI skills to experience prototyping and user research methodologies
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Generation and representation of new product and service concepts in early PLC stages
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Creating usage concepts for Next Generation Interaction (NGI) project
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Executing and reporting on user research studies on NGI Project
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Contributing to UI design of NGI prototypes
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Contributing to concept diagrams and other visualization materials for NGI Project
Professional Experience
Rotation Engineer | User Experience Researcher
August 2013 - May 2015
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Applying HCI skills to experience prototyping and user research methodologies
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Generation and representation of new product and service concepts in early PLC stages
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Creating usage concepts for Next Generation Interaction (NGI) project
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Executing and reporting on user research studies on NGI Project
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Contributing to UI design of NGI prototypes
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Contributing to concept diagrams and other visualization materials for NGI Project
Education:
Clemson University
Doctor of Philosophy Human-Centered Computing
Title: Language Matters: Interactive Plain Language Tutor for Voting Language
Advisor: Dr Juan E Gilbert
Auburn University
MS Computer Science and Software Engineering
Title: Usability Size N
Advisor: Juan Gilbert
Spelman College
BS Computer and Information Science
Minor: Mathematics
(Inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society)