tanya ahmed

User Interface Designer and Developer at Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design at City University London since July 2009. I have been involved in the summative evaluation phase of APDOSDLE, a four year EU funded project which is a work-based tool allowing employees to learn while they work by suggested personalised content according the employee's level of knowledge. I also worked on the design and development of a Sustainability Module since July 2009; work on which has included extensive research into the domain, running of student workshops, persona development, rapid interactive and iterative prototype development , informal guerilla user testing with students, design and implementation of the XHTML web based module, and the summative evaluation with 200 undergraduate students which took place in November 2009. Work on the further development of the Sustainability Module continues. I have also designed and developed the new Interaction Lab Website for City University which is live now.

Web development, User Experience Consultancy, presently doing consultancy work with Kent County Council on the Pic & Mix Pilot on Mashups since Feb 2009. Marketing and Advertising for local businesses. Local Clients include Restaurants, Small Businesses and Start-Ups, and Health Care sector clients. Design and Marketing work has included logos, brochures, business cards, street signage and website design and maintenance.

Part-time position, Design and layout of Adverts for Kent Messenger local newspaper distributed around Kent using QuarkXpress, Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign.