Columbia Universit

BRIEFColumbia University’s International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) is an important immigration office housed within the central university. I was tasked to redesign the entire website in a year’s time. ROLE Managed entire project from start to finish Developed Information architecture (IA) through user testing and content analysis Served as liaison between IT, developers, stakeholders, [...]

NYU Intranet Redes

BRIEF NYU Intranet is an internal website used to share office information on official policies, staff contact data, and required handouts. The 2 year redesign included user feedback and analysis reports, site mapping, wireframing, and graphic design. ROLE Project Manager Developed Information Architecture (IA) Conducted user interviews Performed content inventory analysis Created wiki framework Designed [...]

Post-Completion OP

BRIEF The Post Completion OPT Page was one of the OGS’ most popular pages. However, it received many user complaints. The webpage was very text heavy and included vague steps that weren’t clear. There were hardly any images and there was no clear heiarchy. Benji was assigned to conduct user testing and to implement changes [...]

Qnomy Interactive

BRIEF The Qnomy kiosk design was a six month project to create the new interactive touchscreen display and lobby display for over 100,000 NYU international students, scholars, and beyond. Thie display is the ground for a new state of the art building in New York City. ROLE Developed wireframes, storyboards, and user scenarios Conducted user [...]

Nirvana Solutions

BRIEF Nirvana Solutions is a New York based financial software company that provides real-time portfolio management solutions to hedge funds, prime brokers, and fund administrators. After completing the visual design and user experience for their pad app and website that you can see (here), the CEO asked me to come again to design their website. [...]

Recent Work

News/Press

HALIEN on I09.com!

From I09.com: “With a tagline like “hair gel of the future,” Halien will immediately charm cosplay fans and Manic-Panic survivors. Its inventor, Benji Canning-Pereira, wanted to create a product that lets anybody “morph hair color into a portable science experiment.” Canning-Pereira says: I believe that the future calls for more casual ways to transform [...]

HALIEN on ART 21

From the Art 21 blog: “On the other end of the consumer spectrum, Benji Canning-Pereira embraces advertising culture and utilizes a viable product as a vehicle for discussion. His hair gel, Halien, includes a thermochromic solution that allows the user to change hair color by applying heat. Beneath its tongue-in-cheek gimmicky packaging, Halien is a deeply [...]