Design – Stuff About My Stuff

Santa’s Zombie Boot Camp

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021March 22, 2023 Hardware & Networking, Interactive Experiences Tagged Arduino, CSS, Custom Controllers, Design, Game Design, Hardware, HTML, Interactive Experiences, JavaScript, P5.js, Play Test, Prototype, Rotary Encoder, Sensors, Serial Control, User Testing, Video Game

OVERVIEW Santa’s Zombie Boot Camp is, at its core, a pacing game, written using p5.js and designed to be played through a web browser. Our zombie must keep pace...

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...

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....

Expressive Words

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021December 8, 2021 Accessibility & Design Tagged Adobe Illustrator, Creative Exercise, Design, Drafts, Fonts, Ideation, Letterforms, Sketching

OVERVIEW An expressive word is one that manipulates a word’s letterforms to communicate the meaning of the word. This project consisted of brainstorming word candidates to make into expressive...

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...

BubblePop! & XOKissyFace – QR codes and Flexboxes

martinmartin77 January 1, 2021March 7, 2022 Creative Code, Interactive Experiences Tagged Creative Code, CSS, Design, flexbox, Game Design, HTML, Interactive Experiences, JavaScript, QR code, Web App

OVERVIEW This project focused on using CSS to build a browser-based application using responsive design; through the use of QR code, users are able to transfer the applications I created...

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...