Sarah Phares

Resume

HTML Resume

Graduate Thesis

Design for Decisions
Thesis Project

Engaging the Public
Thesis Essay

Selected Work

Lifestyles|Lifecycles
Self-Portrait Poster

Citizen Speaks
Design for Service

Roo
Mobile Phone Application

Keepsake
Personalized Web Site

100 Best NOLA Dishes
Interactive Visualization

Your Heart
Educational Exhibit


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Keepsake timeline

A customized timeline view integrates a variety of media into a cohesive experience.

Keepsake management

Keepsake offers a fast ad easy process with an efficient uploading process and organization support

mood boards

Mood boards visualizing existing and desired user experience feature quotes from directed storytelling sessions.

Keepsake: A Personalized Website for New Parents as Collectors of Experience

designed at Carnegie Mellon University with
Carlos Gutierrez, IxD and Daisy Yoo, IxD

contributions in concept generation, user research, mood board creation, persona and storyboard development, webpage mock-ups, presentation design, identity and name generation

Keepsake is a website designed to support parents' documentation of baby's first experiences. Research methods including directed storytelling, bricks & mortar observation, and competitive analysis revealed that parents tend to spend most of their time gathering but have little time to organize or reflect. While they'd like to combine media into a special form it can be difficult to get started, and existing formats may be restrictive, pressuring, or impersonal. Keepsake's easy and efficient collection process provides organization support and expanded sharing posibilites. It manages a range of media and offers easy virtual to physical translation. Through a flexible feature set and customization options, the site saves time and adds meaning to the collection process.

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