four mobile phones displaying hiking log, park detail, parks list, and parks map screens of the Minnesota Hiking Club app in front of a green collage background of hiking photos

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    <h6>role</h6>
    <p>User Experience Research, Design</p>
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    <p>Self / Curriculum</p>
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    <h6>date</h6>
    <p>May 2022</p>
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    <h6>timeframe</h6>
    <p>4 Weeks</p>
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    <h6>challenge</h6>
    <p>We believe that a Hiking Club App would offer an accessible, visual, and motivating way for Hiking Club members to record and revisit their Minnesota State Park hikes, as well as redeem rewards for earning Hiking Club trail mileage.</p>
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    <h6>solution</h6>
    <p>Our app offers online access to personal progress towards hiking all of Minnesota's state parks, effortless recording of completed hikes, information about all state parks, uploading photos, and more.</p>
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Team venture that brings the Minnesota Hiking Club program to a feature-rich app environment

Minnesota State Parks Hiking Club

proportionally-sized desktop and mobile mockups of education website redesign with matching screens displayed in front of a blue collage background

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    <p><b>Dorothy Toth</b> User Experience Design</p>
    <p><b>Katie Haas</b> UX Collaborator</p>
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    <h6>client</h6>
    <p>Self / Curriculum</p>
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    <h6>date</h6>
    <p>February 2022</p>
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    <h6>timeframe</h6>
    <p>5 Weeks</p>
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    <p>The goal of this project was to produce a reorganized, redesigned, and responsive website for the Department of Education.</p>
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    <h6>solution</h6>
    <p>The proposed redesign focuses on improving the user experience by simplifying navigation, uncovering important site content, and creating a visually appealing layout.</p>
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Overhaul of website with a focus on information architecture, comprehensive UI, and responsive design

Department of Education

trio of mobile devices showing landing page, home page, and detail page of Horticare app screens against a pink collage background

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    <h6>role</h6>
    <p>User Experience Research, Design</p>
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    <h6>client</h6>
    <p>Self / Curriculum</p>
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    <h6>date</h6>
    <p>January 2022</p>
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    <h6>timeframe</h6>
    <p>3 Weeks</p>
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    <p>How might we help novice gardeners with limited plant knowledge and experience, better plan and organize plant care tasks by using our app?</p>
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    <h6>solution</h6>
    <p>Our garden care app would be a “one-stop-shop” providing zone and care information for user-created plant gardens. Features could include a searchable, detailed plant database, a care calendar that is generated based on the user’s personal garden, and push notifications sent to the user.</p>
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Group collaboration of a garden care app that provides personalized garden creation with plant care instruction

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Minnesota State Parks Hiking Club

Department of Education

Horticare

Dorothy Toth

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