Hello, I'm Alex!

I'm a proud Dartmouth alum who is passionate about using technology and the arts to create unique solutions and immersive experiences

Selected Works

Macro

Macro is an iOS macronutrient tracking app using computer vision to identify given food groups to provide users with relevant information on a food's amount of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Led the design and frontend implementation, synthesized user feedback and insights to create composable elements in React Native and Redux to display past meals. I also added a feature to query relevant recipes from the Spoonacular database providing the needed ingredients and steps.

see code base

SilVR

Spearheaded effort to create and implement vector assets in Unity to increase consistency of design language and to increase the clarity of visual cues to guide users in the app, which included tasks like creating and animating menu screen assets in Unity to provide responsive animations on specific user action, developing wireframes of user scenes and user flow in Figma to increase the clarity of visual cues to guide users, and iterating design elements with project leadership, incorporated feedback and created figural motifs used throughout UI

Other Work Samples

Project Zephyrus

Created an app for Oculus Quest focused on 3D data visualization of wind patterns in VR with an emphasis on translating traditional 2D UI design into a 3D volume through the implementation of UI components with haptic feedback animations and interactive onboarding screens

view video demo

Blog Platform Frontend

Built the frontend using react components and using MongoDB and Express.js to build API server to service frontend with blog data

Notes Web App

Created a note-taking app using react and integrated it with Firebase for persistent storage. Users could reposition the note anywhere on the screen, edit, delete, or create new notes. Some features may now be depracated due to Firebase changes.

see code base

AR Stock App

Created AR stock visualization using the Vuforia library in Unity to query and display real-time stock information using a candle stick graph with holographic effects and animations

Passion Projects

Life at the Museum

A project composed of a series of photos taken over a span of months of people aimed at exploring our connection to knowledge and the emotions we experience in that journey of discovery. These photos capture moments of discovery, joy, contemplation, and love in various exhibitions throughout Los Angeles.

see select gallery samples

Guide to Nausea

A novel focused on a modern interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal work Nausea and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous work The Great Gatsby exploring the ideas of existentialism and the emotions surrounding meaning, memory, and grief for the past.