User Experience Research & User Experience Visioning

Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from The Georgia Institute of Technology

B.A. in Cognitive Science from Case Western Reserve University

Specialized in using cognitive theories to analyze the UX/UI of a wide variety of product platforms and technologies, such as mobile, tablet, web, and desktop applications. Experience analyzing, envisioning, and critiquing a product's UX/UI through empirical investigations, such as concept testing, user interviews, user studies, heuristic analsysis, and cognitive walkthrough. 

Experience working as a User Experience Researcher at Google, YouTube (Visioning Team), and Adobe's Creative Technology Lab. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for 4 years.  Served as an Affiliate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for a year. 

UX Services

• Heuristic Analysis, Distributed Cognitive Analysis, Cognitive Walkthrough, and Computational Cognitive Walkthrough  for mobile, tablet, web, and desktop applications

• Performing user experience research and design work for co-creativve artificial intelligence and computational creativity applications

• Performing user experience research and design work for interactive art applications and creative technology environments

• Analyzing, critiquing, and ideating on concept designs, early prototypes, late stage prototypes, completed products, and product visions

• Identifying, explaining, and ranking user experience faults and software errors throughout an application

• Early and late stage development analysis and testing of existing and planned  features 

• Development of cognitive models,  interaction models, and user models to holistically explain the user's experience engaging with a product

UX Methods

• Human-centered UX research methods, including: product area user research, product development ideation, concept testing, user interviews, user studies, user journeys and personas, storyboarding, paper prototypes, interactive prototypes, and A/B testing

• Grounded Theory and Thematic Analysis qualitative analysis of interview transcripts and feedback reports

Contact: ndavis35@gatech.edu