Work | Andrew Nelson

IRS Direct File

In less than a year, we turned a memo into a highly anticipated product with exemplary accessibility.

Unemployment insurance

Modernized unemployment insurance applications for all states, leading to a drastic reduction in time for applicants to submit

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Improved tooling, compliance, and response time for devops across four teams

KBase

Built genomic and bio-energy research tools, reducing time and effort to manage their data while growing their agile and remote work capacities

SF Building Permitting

Provided emergency support in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing the department to process building permit applications remotely for the first time

Blockchain Invoicing for TradeLens

Research and design a blockchain-based logistics service at IBM

Civic Hacking

What’s a better way for folks to get involved in civic hacking?

Food Trust

Aligned our design, business, and user research to create an experience as innovative as it is delightfully effective.

Blockchain service

Creating the UI for a secret blockchain service at IBM

IBM

I currently lead design research and contribute to interaction and interface design with IBM Blockchain Solutions for food safety applications.

Cloud Infrastructure

Cross-portfolio research, design, and development

Virtual server monitoring

Leading the design and research on a new offering for infrastructure monitoring.

Key Protect

Design and research for a new key management service for IBM Cloud

In mid-2016, my team of five worked with IBM Q to design the in-person experience, then called the Quantum Experience, for visitors to the quantum computing facilities at the TJ Watson Research Center.

Personalized Learning on the Cloud

In 2015 I worked on a project we called Personalized Learning on the Cloud, which eventually found its way into the then-new offering Watson Education.

Research artifact boilerplates

I wanted to create things to more easily start doing research with or reference for communicating research in a valuable way outside of the design researchers’ domain.

Design Thinking

Part of being a design researcher is helping folks articulate their thoughts and sharing them with their team and stakeholders.

Magic Window

Testing how people would perceive and use natural interaction affordances in a live remote collaboration space

ProtoCity

Helping citizens prototype and actively build their future city

Array of Things

How things big and small can be made accessible through a common network and identifiable as an array of networked devices.

WALT

Community empowerment centered around permanently affordable housing

Gleaning research

Modeling the design space of gleaning in order to better inform design decisions for food security and other civic services

Open Austin

Leading organizational efforts on projects, onboarding new members, and helping the organization succeed

GTMobile

I designed and built many mobile web applications as part of a suite of utilities that benefit the Georgia Tech community

Prima Atlanta

Atlanta’s Prima printing company hired me to optimize their e-commerce business. Within months I became an indispensable tech lead to the whole company.

Oriental Weavers USA

Designed and built the website for the U.S. division of the world’s largest producer of carpet and area rugs

Rapid Prototyping Curriculum

Repackaging a rapid prototyping curriculum for new audiences

Waggle

Interactive environment game for learning about bees’ waggle dance

Mobile Reporting

Boilerplate code and design for creating mobile reporting apps

Gleanhub

What happens to unsold or just-out-of-date food? Waste. Gleanhub could prevent this by connecting businesses to hungry people.

Unlock the Box

Voting access projects for Georgia

Fresh for Less

Helping communities in need of healthier food options to gain access

eDemocracy

Increase and improve the transparency and fairness of democratic processes and institutions at home and abroad

Go Grow Atlanta

We helped urban farmers and gardeners access and engage in the drafting process of Atlanta’s first Urban Agriculture Zoning Ordinance

Digital English Avenue

How I helped the Friends of English Avenue to explore improvements to their community vegetable garden via digital media and interaction design.

Goala

A mobile app for United Way members to help facilitate the process of achieving their goals

ShelterShare

A system model for more effective mobilization of resources and services for homelessness

BART Improvements

Taking the rush out of the BART rush hour

Driveway

Driveway helps drivers find a parking space when conventional options are extremely limited, and it helps space owners capitalize on their downtime.

Party Assistant

How to make ad-hoc event coordination and individual assistance for attendees to be convenient and comfortable

ConText

Browser plugin that augments news articles with context for key concepts, events, and entities

Should I pollute today?

An app that calculates how much you pollute on your daily commute

Plan.it

Plan.it is a daily organizer, streamlining teachers’ daily tasks such as registering absences, requesting teacher and testing materials, and recording notes.

Interactivity@GT

I designed and built the front end for the Interactivity @GT events’ website from 2011-2013, alongside Matt Wilczynski for back-end work. My work on the website tripled attendance to the event from past years. Interactivity is a yearly exhibition of projects by graduate students (including myself from 2014-2016) in Georgia Tech’s Human-Computer Interaction and Digital […]