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The logo of the ZipUp app I helped create

ZipUp

How to make a boring task interesting, and learning more about accessibility in iOS. This is part of a series of blogs about some of the projects I worked on as a part of my time at the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy. Context This project at the Academy had two clear goals: conduct actual user research with our target demographic, and make sure our app worked well with the VoiceOver accessibility feature for people with low vision....

Nov 4, 2025 · 6 min · Me
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The Cinemas of Melbourne

Dipping my toe in the world of interactive mapping Where will your next movie night be? Click here to see the map! I’m currently enrolled in the Masters of Geospatial Science at RMIT. As a part of that study, I had a chance to study cartography and visualisation, which is such a delightful intersection of my interests in design, UX, and programming. For the final mapping assessment for this course, we were asked to create an interactive map for the residents of the City of Melbourne using Mapbox, Javascript, and HTML/CSS....

Jul 22, 2024 · 3 min · Me