TUG BRICE
UX for Hire
I am a UX researcher and conceptual designer. I've got an MS in Games for Learning from NYU and a BS in Psychology.
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I founded Ice 9 Design in 2012 with several friends to work on projects and train up the skills we would need to get jobs. Since then, we have published Notes and String, set up a nationwide non-profit to help the homeless, developed some board games, and created an AI.
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I'm looking for work as a UX researcher or designer.
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Projects
This is a collection of projects I have worked on as a designer or researcher.
Notes and String
A skeuomorphic productivity app turned physical design kit
An early product of Ice 9 Design, we took a physical design process and adapted it into an online tool, which became a successful digital product. We then took the successful digital product and readapted it to a physical design kit. Every move saw the product serving a different purpose and a different audience, and this reimagining of the same process into different products depending on the needs of the moment embodies the Ice 9 design ethos.
$O$
A nationwide charity designed to combat homelessness by leveraging the power of information.
It is also a technology demonstrator designed to prove the feasibility of our novel AI framework and to explore the uses of gamification and narrative theory. The technology trialed here went on to form the basis of the flagship product of the Ice 9 Innovations studio. It was also instrumental in getting more than 100 people fed, and more than a dozen back into permanent housing.
Flower War
An educational game about the Aztec Empire
Based on a series of original poems about the Virgin of Guadalupe, Flower War explores the journey of St. Juan Diego and the last years of the Aztec Empire. Can you lead your tribe through this tumultuous time? Will you stay with your indigenous faith, or will you convert to the faith of the invaders from overseas? And can you survive the impending apocalypse? Find out in the Flower War.
Window to the World
Emergent Intelligence
Built up from the framework we developed in $O$ and an algorithm originally designed for a board game, Window to the World has become something amazing. It is fundamentally different than the major types of AI currently in use. Window to the World is where all of the Ice 9 design principles come together to produce something extraordinary.