Connor Shannon

BetterWorld is a platform built in React that makes virtual collaboration easier for college organizations. Over five months, I led a four-person team (designers, researchers, and developers) in designing, developing, and testing the platform.

We co-designed the platform with a college organization and iteratively ran user tests with 10 organization members. We used Agile methodology and Scrum to run multiple two-week sprints during the MVP development stage.

WICster is a virtual companion SMS chatbot and app prototype that helps low-income families develop and maintain healthy habits.

This was part of a 7-month capstone project through CMU's masters of human-computer interaction program, where my team and I worked with clients at Pennsylvania's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), a state government supplemental nutrition program to create a solution that helps low-income families develop and maintain healthy habits.

As the project manager, I facilitated the daily stand-up meetings and came up with a system in Miro to keep the team aligned and accountable while mainly working remotely. I led multiple design sprints and ensured that everyone had a say in the final project direction.

As the tech lead, I worked with the designers and researchers to determine the technical feasibility of our solutions and created a fully-automated SMS chatbot that sent personalized tips to participants.

Remote HQ is a collaborative workspace for teams to create, edit, and find shared documents through visual, voice, and chat interfaces.

This was part of a final project in the Software Usable Interfaces course at Carnegie Mellon. I led the efforts of designing the state management and site infrastructure in React to connect our platform to a back end in Firebase.