Michela Ferrari

I’m a UX designer and researcher who believes design and communication go hand in hand. I am currently a senior at Northwestern University, majoring in Communication Studies with a minor in Business Institutions and completing the Segal Certificate in Design. I’m passionate about creating unique solutions that revolutionize experiences for users, whether generated through digital platforms, services or actual products.

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Mixed Reality > Information Spaces in AR/VR

Designing Information Spaces for Augmented Reality

by Ashcon Abae , Nia Adurogbola | nia_unofficial , Michela Ferrari , Akhil Kambhammettu | akambham , Paige Shin

In the winter quarter of 2019, our team explored how Augmented Reality can benefit different types of journalism. Over the course of the class, we built four unique projects that ranged from translating a sports broadcast into mobile AR to building visual experiences for podcast listeners Translating Timelines into Augmented Reality We began by breaking down how timelines function and what their capabilities were, and we settled on a problem statement: “How might we represent thematically...

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Information Spaces in AR/VR

An experimental design project that explores an emerging concept of information spaces. This concept is behind Microsoft’s pivot to create future Windows operating systems that exist in mixed reality headsets. Students will explore the concept of a news/information app that exists in AR and/or VR. For example, a political news feed might exist on a wall in your living room, and breaking news would appear on a coffee table, twitter reactions surround the coffee table on the floor. Students will also explore the same concept in a virtual environment.