SHEIN: positive scores, uneven task success
Only 2 of 5 formal participants fully completed the filtering task, despite a positive average usability score. Favorites reached 5 of 5.
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✦ UX researcher · designer
hello internet,
Designed by Karena
I research how people move through digital experiences, figure out where things get unnecessarily complicated, and design clearer ways through.
I’m especially interested in navigation, usability, information architecture, and those tiny moments where someone stops and thinks, “Wait... what am I supposed to do?”
made with html, css, curiosity & too many browser tabs
hi, that's me ♡
currently
studying HCI,
building this site,
asking “but why?”
best viewed with curiosity ✦
UX Research
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Information Architecture
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Usability
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Strategy
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Technology
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making complicated things make sense
pulled from the research cabinet
A few things I've investigated.
Sigma Gamma Rho: From Navigation Research to Coded Redesign.
Investigated how prospective members find membership information, then used card sorting and tree testing findings to inform navigation and a coded redesign.
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the evidence
Research Archive
Featured usability and navigation work, plus a secondary research strategy study.
the human
About Me
How I ended up somewhere between technology, research, design, and making things.
the professional version
Resume
Experience, education, skills, and the bullet-point version of everything.
a note from me
I missed when personal websites actually felt personal.
So instead of making another beige UX portfolio with three perfect mockups floating in space, I made this.
The research is serious. The website does not have to take itself quite so seriously.
— Karena ♡made it this far?
We should probably talk.
About research, design, technology, confusing interfaces, or something entirely different.
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