I am a Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington with over 10 years of UX and education research experience. I am a "research junkie" because it provides me with a range of tools to tackle and answer complex questions and to think about users at the center of our design. Specialties: Usability, user-centered design, user experience, research design, engineering education, decision-making, project management, product management Data collection techniques: interviews, field observations, card sorting, surveys, personas, scenarios, task/workflow analysis, wants and needs analysis, storyboards, participatory design, cognitive walk throughs, heuristic evaluation, think aloud protocol, experimental design, content analysis, lab user testing, contextual inquiry, ethnography, and mobile testing Data analysis techniques: thematic analysis, case studies, grounded theory, and descriptive statistics