Gene Lu's Portfolio

Copilot’s Deal Performance Analytics Tool

Copilot is a service that provides restaurants with instant reports on the performance of their past deal campaigns. Earlier this ...

Mar, 24

Kobe VII System

Late last year, Nike released the latest Kobe shoe, the Kobe VII System and needed a product detail page to ...

Mar, 12

Dumbledore and the Golden Wand of Illumination

Over this past holiday break, I took some time out to work on a gift for Sera who’s a huge ...

Jan, 05

Hack-o-Ween 2010/11

For the past couple of Halloweens, I’ve come to really enjoy hacking together costumes. Seeing everyday objects in a different ...

Nov, 03

Wireframes and Prototypes

I spent the past week iterating and testing wireframes for the Story Forest iPhone app using the method as described ...

Mar, 29

Paper Prototyping the Interactions with a Memory Tree

The interaction between people with their memory trees plays an important role in this project. To figure out whether or ...

Mar, 17

1st Round of Prototyping

Last night, with the help of my brother, Will, I completed my first round of prototyping for Memori. Will was ...

Feb, 17

Prototyping Post Up

Overview Post Up is an interactive interface that gives New Yorkers a venue to report contextualized civic problems. This display ...

Nov, 26

Prototyping Chalk Walk

Last week, our thesis development class held a brainstorming session where we broke up into groups to help each other ...

Nov, 14

Airloom Accomplished

As the semester was coming to an end, we had set our eyes on a working prototype that would provide ...

May, 05

The Airloom: Reframing the Project

In the latest user journey above, we incorporated several new ideas: A new set of interactions allowing users to drag ...

May, 03

The Airloom: Interviews and Key Findings

Running in parallel with paper prototyping, we conducted several interviews with young families to determine whether or not there was ...

Mar, 02

The Airloom: Paper Prototype & Screencast

Quick Note to the Interface Before I dive into the results of our participatory design along with paper prototyping, I’d ...

Mar, 02

The Airloom: Prototype 3.0

What Did We Come Up With? The Airloom is a device that passively records conversations and photographs family members around ...

Mar, 01

The Watch: Prototype 2.2

This prototype embodies the same goals as the previous prototype. The only difference is the form and interaction. Two noteworthy ...

Feb, 27

The Dongle: Prototype 2.1

This final concept map can be summarized as follows: Our system helps to share short term tasks with friends, family, ...

Feb, 27

Concept Map: Prototype 2.0

Prior to creating our initial concept map, we wrote out all our ideas onto post-its and laid them out on ...

Feb, 27

To-Do Bracelet: Prototype 1.0

For our first assignment in Prototyping User Experiences class, featuring the guys from Frog Design, we were to bring in ...

Feb, 26

Project PlatInform

As a final project for Jason Santa Maria’s Communicating Design class, we were to: “Identify a problem with navigating the ...

Dec, 23

Hand Wash Tracker

Due to the recent Swine Flu outbreak, our team created a handwash tracker that keeps track of the handwashing habit ...

Dec, 09

@genelu

  • Oh snap! Just signed up for Tough Mudder in October with Team R/GA. http://t.co/MmIOBFHk
  • @nikefuel I synced my band yesterday (16th), but it didn't propagate to the leaderboard within the app. Any help?

In 2009, I switched gears from corporate web design drone to full-time graduate student at SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program. Currently, my interests on creating user engagement has spilled off the computer screen and into the environment and physical objects around us.

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