Experience
STUDENT UX RESEARCHER & DESIGNER Van Buren/Cass District Health Department | January 2024 – present • Connect digital platform to health department database for residents to access community resources. • Conduct user interviews, deploy surveys, and collaborate with stakeholders to identify needs of the HealthLink application. • Design and present prototype to stakeholders, along with evidence for proposed design solutions. STUDENT UX DESIGNER Planet Detroit | January 2024 - present • Identify and consolidate diverse environmental data sources for southeast Michigan, evaluating their feasibility for open-source access. • Responsible for the design of "Planet Detroit Environmental Dashboard," ensuring an optimal user experience by understanding the needs and preferences of southeast Michigan residents. • Collaborate with development team to negotiate dashboard design requirements. UX CONSULTANT Hashiona | November 2023 - January 2024 • Design optimized usability tests, gathering feedback to pinpoint areas for UX improvement. • Synthesize qualitative research data into actionable insights that feed directly into Hashiona’s UX/UI. • Conduct competitive and market analyses to emphasize and project Hashiona’s unique value proposition.
UX/UI INTERN
Kikcit | July 2023 - December 2023 • Rapidly iterate upon low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes based on user feedback. • Incorporated accessibility principles to ensure the design is compliant with accessibility standards. • Conduct user interviews to identify how implementation of Kikcit could increase sales in brick-and-mortar establishments throughout Grand Rapids, MI.
Projects
• Our student team created ‘Cysta,’ a mHealth application that assists individuals with PCOS manage their lifestyle changes. We were able to present our findings at UX@UM 2023.
• I collaborated with Michigan Medicine - Family Medicine to understand how different users utilize FindHelp in conjunction with their patient portals.
Contact
231-675-8845 parkerdh@umich.edu
linkedin.com/in/hero-parker-drost/Education
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MSI in Human-Computer Interaction
Focus of UX Research & Design 2022 – 2024 GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY BS in Behavioral Neuroscience 2017 – 2021
Skills
• UX Writing • Ethnographic Research • Contextual Inquiry • Usability Testing • Rapid Prototyping • Literature Review • Leading Interviews • Survey Creation • Figma, Adobe CC, Sketch
Interests
• Pottery Making • Plant Identification • Reading
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