Background Research – Stuff About My Stuff

MyWay.NYC

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021January 5, 2022 Accessibility & Design Tagged Accessibility, Background Research, Customization, Design, Dream Reviews, Empowerment, Figma, Framer, Inclusivity, MTA, Navigation, NYC, Open Data, Pacing, Personas, Prototype, Tool, Travel, User Data, User Testing

OVERVIEW MyWay.NYC is a rethought, bespoke approach to an urban navigation app—designed specifically for getting around NYC more effectively. Having been conceived as a project for both New Yorkers...

NLP Twitter Bot – Rolfo’s Poem of Perpetual of Loss: A Love Letter to Mi Mi Mi

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Creative Code, Hardware & Networking Tagged AI, AI Poem, Art Mashup, Background Research, Creative Code, Digital Libretto, Hardware, La Boheme, Machine Learning, Networking, NLP, Python, Raspberry Pi, RENT, Twitter Bot

OVERVIEW La Re Bohent is an AI project that combines the scripts of the corresponding characters from Puccini’s La Boheme and Larson’s RENT as source material and uses Python...

Food Filter

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Accessibility & Design, Interactive Experiences Tagged Adobe Photoshop, Background Research, Childhood Obesity, Design, Empathy Map, Empowerment, Figma, Interactive Experiences, Journey Map, Persona, Prototype, Tool, User Testing

OVERVIEW Food Filter is a tool designed to help parents quickly and easily identify important nutritional information when grocery shopping in order to help feed their families healthier food....

Digital Meditation – Reflecting Tool

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021June 10, 2022 Creative Code, Interactive Experiences Tagged Background Research, Creative Code, CSS, HTML, Inspiration, Interactive Experiences, JavaScript, Language, Meditation, P5.js, Tarot

OVERVIEW Drawing inspiration from an unlikely, but seemingly obvious, resource, this project sets up a digital interaction, returning tarot inspired responses to queries made by users. The two main...

Mapping MTA ADA Stations using Kepler.gl

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Accessibility & Design Tagged Accessibility, ADA, Background Research, Data Visualization, Design, Disparity, Empowerment, JavaScript, Kepler.gl, Mapping, MTA, Open Data

OVERVIEW The MTA oversees a massive system used by travelers of a range of mobilities in NYC; yet, not all subway stations can be used by everyone. This is...

Exploring Escapements

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Interactive Experiences Tagged Background Research, Clocks, Construction, Experimentation, Hardware, Inspiration, Interactive Experiences, Movement, Testing, Time, Watches

OVERVIEW The goal of this project was to research and examine examples of escapements in an attempt to build one of my own during pandemic lockdown in the Fall...

The Snowshoe Hare’s Timeless Coat

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Creative Code Tagged Adobe Photoshop, Background Research, Climate Change, Creative Code, HTML, Inspiration, JavaScript, Nature, P5.js, Procreate, Snowshoe Hare, Time

OVERVIEW I took a class called “Time” as part of my master’s program at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program as a way to explore unconventional approaches to designing and building...

Customizable Compass for the Differently-Abled

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Accessibility & Design Tagged Accessibility, Adaptability, Adobe Photoshop, Background Research, Customization, Design, Empowerment, Figma, Inclusivity, Navigation, Pacing, Tool, Travel

OVERVIEW For this project, I designed a customized compass that would allow users to navigate more freely and efficiently to the nearest ADA-complaint subway station in NYC. For this...

You Might Be A NOUN If…

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Creative Code Tagged Art Mashup, Background Research, Country Music, Creative Code, Genre Emulation, Inspiration, Jeff Foxworthy, NPL, Python, spaCy, Top Songs

OVERVIEW For this project, I created a sketch with the goal of emulating a genre or form of writing using Python and Natural Language Processing (NLP.) The result is...