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Benjamin Sibelman

Design Portfolio

Skilled writer, graphic designer, and UX designer-in-training, transitioning from software engineering to design via the Human-Centered Design and Engineering program at the University of Washington. Seeking summer internships in UX design and research (apps and websites) or graphic design.

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Benjamin Sibelman

Design Portfolio

I'm a designer on a mission. I graduated from the University of Washington in 2023 with a degree in Human-Centered Design, but my goal is to practice something bigger and better, Life-Centered Design. My creations are intended to serve not only the needs of my clients, but also those of all the people and other beings around them. If you share that ideal and need an app or website designed for you or your organization, you’ve come to the right place.

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UX Design

Click thumbnails to see full prototypes/documents, including image sources. Some project titles link to case studies.

Services

Google Phone Recycling Mail-Back Program Redesign

Fully illustrated case study!
Link to the final presentation for the Google phone recycling program redesign.
The final group project in the Sustainable Interaction Design course for my HCDE Master's program, which I took because I'm deeply committed to designing things that have a positive impact on the planet. I contributed extensively to the design of the overall service, did a stakeholder analysis, and created a Figma prototype of our proposed OS changes, as well as Photoshop visualizations of the mailers and instruction booklets.

Friend Finder end-to-end service design project

Link to the final design spec for the Friend Finder service
The group project in the intro course for the HCDE Master's program, my first experience with the full Human-Centered Design lifecycle. Our project goal was to help residents of senior-living facilities get more social interaction. I provided leadership for the team to run meetings and keep people on track, created and tested a paper prototype, and wrote the vast majority of the final design spec.

Phone Apps

Streaks app redesign prototype

More concise, fully illustrated case study coming soon!
Link to the Figma prototype for my Streaks app redesign project.
One of two group projects in the Psychology of UX course for my HCDE Master's program. I set the design goal, "Help people live their values and make a difference in the world," which is what I most want to do with my design skills after I graduate. I created the "Select communities of activists you’d like to join" flow and the "View all Streaks users who did the same action" feature in the final Figma prototype.

Village Market app prototype

Link to the Figma prototype of the Village Market shopping app.
An individual project in the HCDE Interaction Design course. I designed a shoppping app from scratch, developed several detailed user scenarios based on a provided persona, and created a low-fi prototype for one of them.

XR Prototypes

Ecosystem Restoration VR Simulation

Link to the final presentation for the VR ecosystem restoration experience.

The final group project in the Designing for VR course I took for the HCDE program, on a topic I'm deeply passionate about. We developed low-fidelity prototypes in CoSpaces and Unity, with the latter including complex interactions, and tested them on the Oculus Quest 2.

User Research

Just Right Info Bites project

More concise case study coming soon!
Link to the process book for the Just Right Info Bites project.
My capstone project for the entire Human-Centered Design and Engineering program at the University of Washington. I worked with three other students to research, ideate, prototype, test, and iterate on a design for a persuasive educational experience about insect-based pet food that encompassed collectible cards, mobile games, and physical rewards. I focused mainly on ensuring that our work throughout the project was based in solid user research to keep our designs human-centered. I also created a video prototype of the final design.

SHARE-NW usability study

Link to the final presentation for the SHARE-NW web app usability study
The quarter-long group project for the aptly named Usability Studies course in the HCDE Master's program. We worked with a UW professor whose research and design team was prototyping a real-world website providing medical data to staff in rural health departments. We did six local and six remote study sessions using a think-aloud protocol, with a moderator and a notetaker at each session; I played each role several times.

Case study of decision-making in an intentional community

Link to the final presentation for the intentional communities decisionmaking study.
The quarter-long group project for the Qualitative Research Methods course I took for the HCDE program. We did ethnographic observation in five decision-making meetings in my own community and interviewed three participants after each one, then coded and analyzed our notes to generate recommendations for improvement.

Web Design

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InLeague website video prototype

Link to view the video prototype for the InLeague web tool for activists
The main project in the Video Prototyping course I took for the UW HCDE program, drawing on moviemaking skills I developed in my undergraduate years at Pomona College. This is another answer to the design question "how can we help people make a difference in the world." I served as designer, writer, director, lead actor, animator, and editor of the video.

New Clear News

Link to the website version of the New Clear News satirical newspaper
A volunteer project for the Washington Against Nuclear Weapons coalition, to create an online version of a satirical newspaper and do some layout fixes for the paper version. Note the simple reflow at narrow window widths, which I hand-coded in Javascript, and the illustrations I created on this page and this page.

Path with Art redesign

Link to the final brand book for the Path with Art website and flyer redesign project.
The main project in the Visual Communication course for the HCDE Master's program. I created a new look and feel for the website of this real nonprofit, including a logo design, and extended the updated style to an event flyer.

Graphic Design and Illustration

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Illustration

Artificial reef visualizations for Ocean Rescue Alliance

Visualization of an artificial reef project on a tropical coastline.
Visualization of an artificial reef project on the Dead Sea in Israel.
Visualization of an artificial reef project in the shape of the Marriott logo.
Visualization of an artificial reef project in the shape of the Hilton logo.
Visualization of an artificial reef project spelling the letters ORA for Ocean Rescue Alliance.

Reading primer illustrations

Black-and-white illustrations of a telescope, astronaut, space shuttle, and moon base for a children's reading primer
Black-and-white illustrations of sports equipment for a children's reading primer
Black-and-white illustrations of dinosaurs for a children's reading primer

Advertising for Events

Branding

New visual system for a nonprofit

Link to the final brand book for my Path with Art website and flyer redesign

Data Visualization