As consultants, we were brought in to support an internal team as they aimed to integrate two pieces of software: one that had been built within the organization, and the other that had been recently acquired. Both had certain overlapping features and functionality, although each had different UI paradigms and core end users. Our mission was to align both pieces of software to reflect the company's visual brand and redesign the UI to appear as a cohesive software package. We kicked off this engagement through a 3-day workshop with key stakeholders throughout the organization.

What started out of curiosity led to many experiments, and ultimately became the research topic for my undergraduate thesis project. I began asking big questions:  What are major barriers for people with physical disabilities in todays cities? How do individuals with visual impairments navigate the built environment? What are the scope of barriers beyond the physical, and how might a psychological barrier deter someone from experiencing an urban setting? I can't say that I found an answer to these questions, but I discovered many areas for opportunity within the way we depict urban information. Between interviewing several individuals with disabilities to designing & modeling instances of wayfinding tools, I created a conceptual vision for what inclusive, urban information might look like in the future.