Tricia Flohr iNDUSTRIAL dESIGNER
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Hi!
My name is Tricia and I like to solve problems. A diligent worker with a curiosity that drives me to seek out new challenges, I’m always prepared to put extensive time and effort into learning new skills. Actively involved in Ottawa’s creative community, I enjoy designing posters for local musicians and have organized volunteer teams for art shows. I’m currently finishing up my last year at Carleton University’s School of Industrial Design.
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Always working to meet the needs of both the user and the client, I look forward to contributing to the creative field of design.
ClearFit
Web Application 8 Months Clear Fit is a company specializing in applicant job fit analysis. I worked on this project from the beginning, building off of simple pre-existing designs provided by the company. I had the opportunity to see the project through from beginning to end, and worked closely with a visual designer, UX researcher and developers. This project was managed by Macadamian.
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Interface Development
The design process began in Balsamiq and was iterated upon in Illustrator. Original designs were heavily influenced by heat-maps and tiled-dashboards. However, throughout the process of working with the client, visual designer and test users, the design was modified to behave as an interactive list.
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Low Fidelity Mockups
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High Fidelity Mockups
The job dashboard displays all active and inactive Selecting a job leads to a list of all applicants. jobs. Selective a job in the list expands the job to The applicants can be sorted using the tools in reveal more details and actions. the left-hand panel. The user can comment on applications, or email applicants directly from this panel.
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From the Applicant list, users can visit the profile of an applicant to view the applicant’s resume, interview results, and job fit.
Navigation Architecture
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EurekaLive Desktop Widget 4 Months Callminer is a company specializing in conversational analytics for improving call quality and agent performance. The EurekaLive Agent assistan is a near real-time speech monitoring device that can give feedback to agents, created for Callminer.
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Expanded
Initial Concepts
The goal was to create an interactive widget to provide feedback that could be read at a glance. The UI had to be persistent on the screen and take up minimal real estate.
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Functionality The widget provides scrolling text and colour coded feedback, giving the Agent prompts and advice about how to properly respond to customer comments and concerns. The sentiment analysis technology by Callminer is capable of carefully monitoring call audio to provide appropriate, near real-time feedback from subtle cues in tone of voice and speech patterns. The widget is able to monitor the call for key words and tones that will trigger events.
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Colour Coding As the call moves in a positive direction the outer circle changes to green; however if the conversation moves in a negative direction it turns red.
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FormsCentral Web Application 8 Weeks FormsCentral is an Adobe web-based form creation application. The application allows users to distribute forms digitally, collect form data and create or customize forms and form templates. I primarily worked on visual designs for the template section and new work flows for the form creation UI.
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Interface Development
The goal was to create a less intimidating appearance, specifically in regards to the “custom-form� workflow. We offered suggestions to improve the user experience with respect to initiating a new form, as well as the template display UI, which was originally an overwhelming interface.
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Editing a form I was responsible for creating the interaction design for the editing interface, as well as providing several assets. One main contribution I made was the new workflow for the “submit� button.
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Calculation Tool We also created a new calculation tool, which would allow users to create automated fields such as “total amount owed�.
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Cardinal Album
Album Artwork & Merchandise 2 Weeks 3MD is a band that I’ve worked for designing posters, branding and album art. For this album I used illustrator, photoshop and water-colour.
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embrace shiatsu massager
Achieving Pain Relief at Home Portable Shiatsu Massager 16 Weeks An incremental design project that aimed to improve upon a product in home health care. Working with users to identify key issues and maintaining user contact throughout the design process was vital to this project.
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Market & User Research
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Concept Development & Prototypes A variety of initial prototypes were created and tested with users before arriving at the final design concept.
Continuous communication with users through testing and research helped shape the final product. The main needs identified were: 1. The massage must be vibration free 2. The device must be cordless 3. The device must be portable and handsfree
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Final Materials
The main materials used for the body of the massager are polyurethane textiles (pleather) and a nylon/spandex mixed textile (stretch athletic mesh). The pleather imitates the look and feel of leather yet is easier to manufacture and less expensive. The stretch mesh provides comfort and breathability. The pivot mechanism in the straps would be a simple grommet-rivet system, likely made of Teflon to allow ease of motion, and would be sourced from a manufacturer of textile fasteners. The remote would be constructed from injection molded ABS.
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Final Model & Details
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Bringing the Garden inside LED Garden - Grow Pod 8 Weeks
This project aims to create a self sustaining garden for small urban living spaces. Many kitchens in small homes and apartments have little natural light. To help alleviate this problem the garden has LEDs built into it to promote herb growth even when natural light is not present. A water reservoir allows the user to avoid constant watering; the clear reservoir allows the user to clearly see when it needs to be refilled. A charcoal filter in the bottom prevents over watering.
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Use Cycle 1. Push seed pods into soil and add water.
3. Set lighting to appropriate cycle (low light or full light).
2. Remove lid from reservoir and fill with water.
4. Let herbs grow!
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Concept Development Elements from each of these concepts were used in the final design Wall mounted open Garden with permanent
Open Garden with removeable water
water reservoir
reservoir, for wall mounted or counter-top use
Compact folding seed pods
Flexible row of pods, to fit gardens of different
Garden
Terrarium inspired wall mounted garden
Seeds
Single row of pods
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shapes
Form Development
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Garden Materials The garden uses an optimized LED strip with wavelengths: 625 to 675 nm & 425 to 475 nm to provide balanced lighting that encourages growth.
MethylmethacrylateStyrene
Wall Plug SLIM AC Power Supply Brick
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Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
Seed-Pod Materials The pods use organic paper pulp that biodegrades naturally when they planted in the earth. This process releases the seed along with plant food and biomatter into the garden. FRONT VIEW
SIDE VIEW
0.50”
1.25”
CROSS SECTION A-A Pulp Bio-Matter Seed Plant-Food
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Seed Pods
Tricia Flohr
triciaflohr@cmail.carleton.ca www.tflohr-design.com Ottawa, ON, Canada (613) 304-1037
Industrial Design • User Experience Design
Education Carleton University Ottawa, ON Bachelor of Industrial Design (Co-op Option) Minor in Business CGPA: 11.30/12 September 2010 - May 2015 • Carleton Entrance Scholarship • 2010-2011 Dean’s Honour List • 2011-2012 Dean’s Honour List • 2012-2013 Dean’s Honour List
Skills Proficient Knowledge of: • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe InDesign • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Fireworks • Balsamiq • Microsoft Office • Corel Painter • Corel PaintShop Pro • SolidWorks • Rhino Working Knowledge of: • HTML and CSS • Adobe Flash
Work Experience May 2013 - August 2014 Kevin Deevey Architect • Junior UX designer • Created detailed wire frames of graphic user interfaces for web browsers, smartphones and tablets; Created high fidelity mockups for visual designs to demonstrate potential appearances of apps and widgets • Discussed and worked with developers, user researchers and designers on large teams to collabroate on design projects Dollarama • Merchandising and Cashier
July 2011 - May 2013
Volunteer Experience Ottawa UX Camp 2013 • Assisted in the organization, registration and way-finding of the fourth annual UX Camp in Ottawa Glebe Fine Arts Show • Coordinated a group of volunteers to advertise for the Show in Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012 and Fall 2013 Guest Lecturer & Tutor • Effectively taught tutorials on soft goods and acted as tutor to students working with sewing projects in both Mass Productions Technologies class and Second Year Studio during Fall2012, Winter2012, Fall 2013, Winter 2015
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triciaflohr@cmail.carleton.ca Ottawa, ON, Canada (613) 304-1037