Sabarish Raghupathy | Portfolio
UX | UI | IxD | IA
This is a space to showcase my work and my interests and achievements. Scroll down to see some of the work I have been doing.
Hire Me!
I am interested in UX Research, Information Architecture, Interaction Design. I am available for an internship this summer!
Contact
Mail me at: sabarish at umich dot edu
Call me at: (832) 794 3422
Course Projects
Projects done at University of Michigan School of Information
Evaluation of Systems and Services (SI622)
In this course we are evaluating the usability, usefulness, and acceptability of the online game ‘Teledraw’ using several UX evaluation methods. This is a full semester, group project and introduces us to various research methods and usability tests and UX methods.
Evaluation of Systems and Services (SI622) (continued)
Teledraw.com Project Deliverables:
Information Architecture (SI658)
Evaluated the Instagram app from an Information Architect’s POV. Analyzed user experience, heuristics, credibility, and suggested design ideas for making and improving information architecture.
See the final presentation here.
Contextual Inquiry (SI501)
The information workflow was analysed and relevant findings and recommendations were provided to make better use of information, technology and people to improve reporting, work processes, culture and increase fund-raising opportunities at IHN-AH.
Read the final report.
Fundamentals of Human Behavior (SI688)
Term paper to analyze the experience and the design of the music streaming site, thesixtyone.com.
Read the final paper.
Statistics (SI544)
Term project to find correlation between weather in Ann Arbor and crimes recorded by Ann Arbor police.
Click on for the final report and presentation.
Other Projects
Projects done outside of academic and professional life
Evaluation and Redesign of Wild Swan Theater Website
A few of us students have volunteered to evaluate the existing Wild Swan Theater Website and come up with a redesign. The project involves conducting interviews of stake-holders and users; conducting usability tests and other analysis; creating personas; wireframing and prototyping, amongst other UX methods.
Here I Am – Windows Phone App
Participated in the Microsoft Big App on Campus hackathon and designed and developed a Windows Phone 7 app that helps users direct their friends to locations within a building or area.
BlueCQ – Microsoft Imagine Cup
South (India) Zone finalists at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2005 Software Design competition, for our idea titled ‘BlueCQ’ – A bluetooth based social networking tool.
Ecology Center (Ann Arbor) – Social Medai
Enchanced the online and social presence of the Ecology Center.
Launched Google+ page. Created YouTube channel. Updated Wikipedia entry.
Design Jams
Regularly participate in design jams, hackathons and other events, like this suggested redesign wire-frame of the linked.org site during a group design jam at the University of Michigan.
You can also find me at LINKEDIN | See my UX TWITTER FEED | Visualize my profile at VISUALIZE.ME | See my photos at FLICKR and INSTAGR.AM | See my Graphic Design work at SCRIBD | Read my PERSONAL BLOG and TWITTER FEED
The Journey So Far
Professional and Education history
Grad Student
Sep ’11 – Apr ’13
University of Michigan
Master of Science in Information specializing in Human-Computer Interaction from School of Information
Part-Time Web Application Developer
Sep ’11 onwards
University of Michigan
Designing, developing and evaluating a set of web-based tools for clinicians to capture research data as part of their day-to-day patient care practice at C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital.
Internship
Feb ’12 – Mar ’12
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, Dept. of History, New York University
As part of the School of Information’s Alternate Spring Break program, I evaluated and redesigned the Margaret Sanger Papers Project website. The new site goes live in April ’12.
Professional Life
Jun ’05 – Jul ’11
Dell Services / Perot Systems
Worked as a Software Developer for Dell Services (formerly Perot Systems) in Bangalore and Plano. I was largely involved with projects in the American Healthcare sector using Microsoft technologies (C# / ASP.NET / TFS / SQL Server / etc.)
Internship
Feb ’05 – Jun ’05
Perot Systems
Helped design, develop and test the UI for an application that was being migrated from VB6 to ASP.NET
Under Grad
Jul ’01 – May ’05
Visweswaraiah Technological University
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology