Selected projects
the long versions
MathFlux
A real-time competitive math game that teaches arithmetic by playing it, with five difficulty tiers from kindergarten to college and a live head-to-head competition mode. I designed the full learning loop: an onboarding flow that gets a new player productive in under a minute, a difficulty curve that scales with skill, and feedback timed so a wrong answer teaches instead of discourages. Built natively for iOS. The design problem was instructional at its core: fun enough that kids keep playing, rigorous enough that they actually improve.
VR Cat Spay
A virtual-reality scene for veterinary students learning to spay a cat, built in Unreal Engine. The student first sets the surgery-table height until their elbow sits at 90° over the patient (ergonomics is the opening lesson), then gets their anatomy knowledge tested: an in-scene assistant asks them to identify organs, and they point with the controller. A line trace reads back the name of whatever they’re pointing at.
This was my first time in Unreal and my first crack at interaction and game design of any kind. Through the technical struggle (and some stubborn computer glitches) I learned cats, veterinary medicine, VR, and Unreal. That project is what pushed me toward game design.
Cat anatomy, surgery table, and instrument table modeled by Ali Ennis. Clinic room from the Unreal Marketplace; waiting room “Neusa Frois” by SrMonteiro (Sketchfab).
Full project & more media ↗Teacher App
An app built around how teachers actually plan and run instruction. I mapped the educator’s workflow, then designed an interface that reduces prep friction and keeps the focus on the learning goal rather than the tooling. The embedded prototype is fully clickable; tap through the real flow.
First-Year Engineering Honors, TA
As a teaching assistant for an honors engineering program at Texas A&M University, I worked with 400+ students a semester across several sections, over 2,000 students in all from 2021 to 2025. I built learning objectives, sequenced material so beginners could move from raw concepts to applied work, and rewrote explanations based on where students actually got stuck. This is where adult-learning theory stopped being abstract. I watched in real time how sequencing and practice decide whether knowledge transfers.
Educational experience design
An instructional design project that turns a learning goal into a clear, engaging experience: defining the audience, the objectives, and the path between them. The embedded walkthrough shows the design in motion.
Vaccine Pledge
A UX project on encouraging and capturing vaccine commitments. The hard part was earning trust on a sensitive topic without adding friction to the path to action.
Photo Booking App
A booking app for photography clients, covering the flow from browsing to scheduling to confirmation, with the friction designed out of every step.