I’m Chikako, a user experience designer and Japanese/Mathematics teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.

I’m a life-long learner and teacher focused on creating user-friendly and engaging educational products to be made accessible to everyone. I’m a strong believer and advocate of thoughtful design and human-computer interaction theories to aid in reducing the technological and experience gap in educational platforms.

Kojo - Designing a social computing application that solves social needs

This project is to investigate any issues in society and to create a social computing application to address that issue. This project was conducted as an assignment of Social Computing subject in Master of Information at the University of Melbourne.

Fieldwork of Design Individual Reflection

This report is a series of my answers for four different questions related to HCI methods and social and ethical considerations.

Remodelling an Ecommerce platform

In this assignment, we were given a scenario about an eCommerce website to be remodelled using Information Architecture theories. We were also given the results of log analysis, existing and targeted customers information, and personas.

Telstra Creator Space - making a digital tool to improve user experiences

This project is to investigate the needs and motivations of all users at Telstra Creator space, define the problem they are facing and create a digital tool to improve their overall experience at the site. This project was completed by three Master of Information Technology students at the University of Melbourne.

Work

  1. Company
    Monash University
    Role
    Sessional Teaching Associate in Japanese Studies
    Date
  2. Company
    Parkdale Secondary School
    Role
    Japanese/Mathematical Teacher
    Date
  3. Company
    Department of Education and Training Victoria
    Role
    Japanese language assistant teacher
    Date
  4. Company
    A.P. Moller Maersk
    Role
    Customer Service
    Date
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