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In Fall 2020, I joined Georgia Tech's SGA IT Board as a UX Designer for Course Critique: a website which displays grade distributions for professors and courses at Georgia Tech, has over 10,000 unique visitors each month, and serves as a handy resource for students who are choosing their classes. I worked with another UX Designer to come up with a redesign for the website using Figma. A few weeks after joining the team, I took on the role as a front-end software engineer to implement the new vision for the website and make changes to the interface of all pages across Course Critique. One of my favorite contributions was adding a dark/light mode function to the website so that users can choose the interface they prefer. Check out the website at critique.gatech.edu!

I forked a GatsbyJS recipe starter website from Flotiq and further developed and customized it to create a website for my girlfriend and I's favorite recipes! We call it the "Mernu" because our names are Miranda and Fernanda and this website is a menu collection of our favorite dishes. I customized the look of cards on the home page with CSS and added a search and filter functionality with React/JavaScript. All menu items are added using the Flotiq API and the website is deployed on Netlify. Check out the website at mernu.net!

As the lead UX software engineer on the Coronavirus Visualization Team, I contributed to conducting usability testing, adding new content, and adjusting the layout on our organization's website. One of my biggest tasks was to design and develop a page that displays the data visualizations created by members of the organization to highlight their work and give insight into the type of work the CVTeam is doing as a whole. Visit the website at https://cvt-site.netlify.app/.

While in quarantine, I made a TwitterBot that scrapes data from worldometers and tweets statistics on coronavirus cases in Orange County and the state of FL. By tweeting updates everyday, this bot allows people to see how much the local COVID-19 case number grows day by day.

I collaborated with a team at University of Florida's hackathon (SwampHacks 2020) to create a web application that allows users to remotely control a laser pointer on a Raspberry Pi and play with a cat. I developed the front-end of the web app and connected it to the Raspberry Pi using HTML, CSS, Python, and Flask.

I developed in C to create a game inspired by Disney Pixar's Inside Out where Joy must defeat the Depression clouds by shooting rays of sunshine at it all while avoiding getting hit by lightning bolts. Joy loses a life every time she gets hit by lightning or touches a mini Depression cloud, but she can regain a life by collecting memory balls. I used Usenti to design all the sprites and draw the moving background in the pause state. In the development of this game, I met weekly deadlines and carried the project from ideation to completion in the span of a month.

I worked with a team to create a game consisting of multiple players in which one player arranges obstacles with mirrors and blocks for the second player to figure out how to reach the target with one or more lasers. Taking on the role of UX Engineer for this project, I contributed to designing and implementing the game menu, background music, and some of the game functionality. Check out the game demo in the video below!

I developed in Java to create a drawing tool that allows users to place stars in the night sky and create their own constellations. This program utilizes an audio library so the connecting lines and background stars change color depending on the volume in the room.

Milk and Gech is a TwitterBot I made that tweets hand-selected posts from the Overheard at GT Facebook Group in a form that resembles poetry. The idea for this bot came from the book Milk and Vines, which is a parody of Rupi Kaur's Milk and Honey. For an additional humorous effect, this bot tweets memes with nouns replaced with Georgia Tech-related words. Scroll through the bot's timeline below!

See the Pen Mondrian by Fernanda Moreno (@fernanda-moreno) on CodePen.

In learning how to create CSS art, I created my own personalized Mondrian painting purely with HTML and CSS following a tutorial from Coder Projects. The tutorial demonstrated how to get started and allowed me the opportunity to solve how to finish the pattern and customize each box with colors of my choice.

At the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program (Miami, FL, 2016), my team and I created a website aimed at helping students succeed throughout high school and find scholarships and internships. In addition to contributing to the website's design and purpose, my primary role was to write code and content for the Surviving High School page of the site. Feel free to check out the website by clicking on the image below!