DATA SCIENCE · UX DESIGN · EST. 2005ANN ARBOR, MI
natwshimon

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Digital Projects

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Here, you'll find my proudest works in digital design and development, some from my professional life, some from my academics, and some from my own personal passions.

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M-Genie hero image
Full-StackUX Design

M-Genie

To many, Google Workspace is a productivity tool. To large organizations like University of Michigan, it's the only thing standing between a functioning institution and total administrative chaos.

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Prototypes

M-Lead website homepage, showing a big header saying "Where leadership is learned" over an image of a smiling woman in helmet
2025 - 2026Web Dev

M-Lead

Since May 2025, I've been a web developer for the University of Michigan's leadership hub, M-Lead. Using WordPress and Pantheon WebOps, I maintain and enhance the M-Lead site.

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Cross-Country Team website homepage, colored sky-blue with the Ann Arbor Skyline Cross Country logo on the top left
2026Accessibility

Cross-Country Team Website

A website redesign for a highschool cross-country client, Skyline. Also, among my first attempts at an accessibility-focused site!

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A screenshot of a pixellated mountain scenery, proving the 2D grid tapestry crochet pattern generator works
2025AI / ML

Knitpicker

A crochet 2D grid pattern generator, for all levels. As an avid crocheter myself, I wanted to get into tapestry crochet, but didn't know where to start... so to procrastinate, I made this instead.

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Green card approval trend scatterplot
2025Data

Green Card Data Analysis

For the U-M Datathon 2025, my team and I conducted an exploratory analysis of USCIS approval trends across green card categories, and built our argument around a possible solution and its ethics.

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Mockups of the Cleanify and Greencart app screens
2024UX Design

Cleanify & Greencart

For a consulting client, I redesigned paired apps that gamify eco-friendly shopping and household waste reduction through blockchain incentives.

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Teardowns

2026Article
The Spotter logo: the company's name in sans-serif font with an asterisk as the 'o' in 'Spotter'

Spotter: A Company Analysis Memo

As part of my submission for the Contrary Research Fellowship 2026, I wrote a company memo for Spotter, a startup in the entertainment industry that specializes in the creator economy.

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2025Presentation
A screenshot in one of the slide panels of the UNIQLO website

UNIQLO E-Commerce Heuristic Evaluation

A Nielsen-based usability audit of UNIQLO's web store, surfacing navigation friction, inconsistent affordances, and accessibility gaps across the purchase funnel.

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2025Article
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Design Patterns & How Tech Companies Leave You in the Dark

A Medium essay I wrote as part of my product journey, tracing how interaction patterns born from user-centered design can drift into manipulation in a concept called "dark patterns," and how to spot them.

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