ScrappyChef

Overview

Our main goal is to solve the issue of time management and food waste management for users, especially college students.

Why?

92% of students from our user research study mentioned that they struggle with maintaining a consistent and healthy eating habit because they don't know what to cook or what groceries to purchase.

They often resort to easier meal alternatives, such as frozen foods or delivery/take-out.

How?

ScrappyChef is a mobile app worked on by a team of 4 Product Designers.

We want users to be able to eat healthy and deliciously while reducing food waste in their fridge.

Link to Case Study

PodSC

Overview

We're aiming to solve the problem of students having trouble looking for study spots on campus.

Why?

70% of the USC student body live off-campus: many of them commute from home to campus.

They often have gaps between their daily schedule where they can't necessarily go back home, but they have nowhere else to stay or rest on campus.

How?

PodSC is a full-stack web app being worked on by a team of 4, made for the USC community.

We want to minimize time spent looking for a spot, and maximize time spent studying and resting.

Link to Github (unable to host website as it has been dynamically coded using PHP!)

Recontix

Overview

Transactions should be simply and easy, but most importantly, safe.

Not restricting, but limiting transactions to within campus radius and official students will help students feel safer when reselling and exchanging concert tickets.

Why?

Los Angeles is the heart of entertainment & media, and more than ever, students are attending live concerts and events.

Ticket exchange and reselling occurs often among students at USC, but many question the reliability and safety for these transactions.

How?

Recontix is a full-stack web/mobile app that will allow USC students to validate their profiles first through their USC unique ID numbers.

We want students to feel safe and at ease when conducting risky transactions with strangers.

Creative Labs SC

Overview

We wanted to curate a space and community where student creatives can get together to innovate and experiment with sparking ideas.

Our amazing 15-people executive board members meet weekly to strategize and event plan for our 30+ general members to allow them to work in teams of 5-8 in sprints to deliver their projects by the semester deadline.

Why?

We talked with students in USC Roski School of Art and Design on their perception of the creative community currently on campus, and many have voiced that they felt a gap in the physical arts space.

They wanted: 1) a diverse creative community mixed with both digital and physical art interests, 2) to explore different areas of creativity, 3) opportunities to showcase their work to the USC community beyond their school/classes

How?

Creative Labs SC is a project-based organization that promotes student creatives to pursue passion projects in whatever field, area, interest.

We want creativity and exploration to be accessible to all students, as we believe everyone is a creative at heart.

Link to website

Daily Trojan

Overview

The Daily Trojan is the student newspaper of the University of Southern California.

I work as the Online Projects Assistant, where I work alongside Product Managers and Product Designers to create websites that will be viewed by 2000+ students.

What?

I was directly in charge of the online USC football section of the newspaper, where I built a template website to keep updated scores and media content, such as pictures and articles regarding a specific game. This template has been used by up to 20 USC football games total.

Link to website

Peppermint

Overview

Peppermint is founded with the mission to redefine undergarments and basics for the up and coming generation. At Peppermint, freedom of self-identity, diversity and sustainability is celebrated.

What?

I created and developed the overall product marketing structure, by interviewing customers to gain product insight, which was directly updated onto our product roadmaps.

I took advantage of being a Gen-Z myself to help Peppermint better target their desired demographic of young teens and adults aged 16-25 who look for sustainability and identity values in a brand.