An abstract image that resembles outer space. The background is dark with blues and purples in an abstract pattern, and white dots that resemble stars.

Greetings! I'm Alex.

Designer, Developer, Creator

I graduated from the College of Charleston Honors college with a degree in Computing In The Arts. I'm passionate about the intersection of creativity and technology, and I strive to use my skills and abilities to guide users towards a goal in the most effective, enjoyable way possible. I enjoy "finding the fun" in everything, even the mundane, and I'm willing to work hard to make a goal possible.

I have a wide variety of experiences that work together to contribute to my products. I have completed projects in game design/interactive design, UI/UX design, graphic design, and research for personal use, academic assignments, and for external clients. I also have experience in education and research, which allows me to combine technology, design, and learning methodology to create memorable games and interfaces.

Some Of What I Can Do

  • Illustration
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • UI/UX
  • Figma
  • Prototyping & User Testing
  • Github
  • Game & Interactive Design
  • Unity Engine & C#
  • Research
  • HTML & CSS

Interactive Experiences

A screenshot image of the project Surveyor. It shows a digital graphic of a brown house with a tree on the left side and a lamppost on the right, and a journal icon in the bottom left. The house is sitting on green grass with a blue sky behind. It is all in a simple lined, cell-shaded style.

Surveyor

A point-and-click educational game teaching real storm surveying techniques.

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A screenshot image of the project narravas. The background is a textured muted yellow color, and there is text on the left side of the screen with two buttons below it, and a blurred image on the right side of the screen. The screen is surrounded by a black border that gives the silhouette of vines.

Narravas

A prototype interactive storytelling experience that creates a work of art as you play.

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A screenshot of the title screen for snowballing. The background is a white snowy landscape with green trees and a blue sky. Snowballing is written in snow-covered bubble letters at the top of the screen. The center of teh screen has a signpost with three signs on it saying play, levels, and credits. There is a snowball to the left of the sign and two snowmen to the right of the sign. The snowman on the left does not have a head and its accessories have fallen to the floor, while the one on the right is whole and seems happy.

Snowballing

A puzzle platformer where you play as a snowball collecting snow, gaining mass to jump higher.

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UI/UX

A picture of a slide displaying several screen images of an app interface. The screenshots are labelled 'Quick Preview'. In order from left to right the screenshots are the home screen of the app, a screen showing tasks to be completed, a screen showing a small reminder icon being added to the task list, an edit screen where the tasks and reminders have icons to pin or delete them, a completion screen with all tasks completed, a fill progress bar, a congratulation message, and fish decorating the screen, and finally a progress screen showing a chart with a small penguin underneath. All of these screenshots are on a light blue graident background, and in the upper right corner is an icon stylized to look like the combination of a star, a capital letter A, and a penguin.

Articuwin

User interface design for a simplistic task-tracking app.

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An icon for MYdata. The M and Y are capitalized while the rest of the letters are lowercase. There are two dashes on either side. The background is black and the text is white.

MYdata

UI/UX improvements to a personal data collection app.

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Graphic Design

A image composed of three different images. On the left is a design for a tshirt on a blue backround featuring a computer showing an image of a building, a banana on top of the computer, and several light blue white, and yellow circles on the background. Above the computer is the text 'NSF REU Immersive media computing' and below is the text 'GSU 2022'. On the left are two images stacked on top of eachother. The top image is a 5-way venn diagram with the colors cyan, yellow, blue, green, and white intersecting. Next to it is a half-square contating the text 'project tieu'. this is on a light blue background. The image below is a graphic of a multi-colored wheel divided into multiple sections, alternating in green, blue, red, and yellow. To the left is the text 'Wheel of Wheel', each word on a different line. This is superimposed over an image of a parody game show.

Gallery

A gallery of graphic design & illustration projects

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Research

A research poster for 'A survey of suspense models in storytelling and computer games'. The poster has text organized into three columns, and icons at the top representing the College of Charleston, Georgia State University, and the National Science Foundation.

A Review of Game Design Techniques for Managing Suspense

Research and analysis of the way games affect a player's suspsense level and potential applications of those techniques

Paper        REU Site