Work | Andrew Nelson

Open Austin

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

Rapid Prototyping Curriculum

Repackaging a rapid prototyping curriculum for new audiences

Fresh for Less

Helping communities in need of healthier food options to gain access

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

Gleanhub

What happens to unsold or just-out-of-date food?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

Mobile Reporting

Boilerplate code and design for creating mobile reporting apps

Waggle

Interactive environment game for learning about bees’ waggle dance

Magic Window

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

Party Assistant

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

BART Improvements

Taking the rush out of the BART rush hour

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

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

eDemocracy

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

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.

Driveway

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

Go Grow Atlanta

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

Plan.it

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

Oriental Weavers USA

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

This website tripled attendance to Georgia Tech’s MS-HCI career fair, [email protected] Since 2011, it has been a boon to the program’s job placement and reputation to both employers and prospective students.

VacantFinder

VacantFinder is a visualization of vacant property data and reporting tool for civic engagement

Commute Community

A hyperlocal social network for commuters, based on a mobile mesh network

DuoDash

Improve the interaction between freelancers and clients with automation and sexy data

Open Ghana

Reintroducing opportunity to Ghana’s mining blights by enabling the public to report injustices, announce improvements, and invite international attention and investment