Hello and Welcome

My name is Jared Friedman.
I'm a recent graduate from NJIT with a B.S. in Human Computer Interaction currently seeking employment as a Web Designer.


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Course Work

Project Courses

Non-Project Courses

Senior Project - Real Estate Valuation

Group created tool for finding similar properties to given address and assess level of comparability. Measured characteristics of similarity and to which degree such similarities weighed on end similarity score. Application Demonstration

Mobile Application Design - Tipping App

Application targeted for travelers that would produce tipping standards based on user’s location (using geo location) and which public service they were receiving. Just a Tip Web App

Measuring the User Experience - Tell Us Who App

Social Matching application used to give students hands-on, real-world experience working on multiple iterations and software development lifecycle. Worked as team to generate unique solutions to existing problems as well as handling newly introduced problems generated between each iteration of the app. Sample Itteration of Social Network Map

Designing the User Experience

This course covers the design and evaluation of the human-computer interface in interactive computer systems. Students are expected to design interface mockups and evaluate them.

Evaluating the User Experience

Methods for identifying usability problems and for testing the relative merits of alternative designs for interactive systems. Students practice five different methods: semi-structured interviews, protocol analysis, cognitive walkthroughs, user surveys, and controlled experiments

Web Mining and Information Retrieval

This course introduces the design, implementation and evaluation of search engines and web mining applications.

Human Factors + Ergonomics

Through lectures and "hands-on" experiments, this course will challenge the student to explore objects and environments as sensory and psychological experiences that effect human comfort, efficiency, function and emotion

Database Design Management and Applications

This course gives students extensive, pragmatic experience in designing, building, querying, updating, maintaining and managing relational databases, using the Structured Query Language (SQL)

Requirements Analysis and Systems Design

A study of the information systems development life-cycle, from the initial stages of information requirements analysis and determination to the ultimate activities involving systems design. Theory, methodologies and strategies for systems design, including design of user-interfaces, particularly menu-driven and keyword dialogue strategies, and issues in the proper design of computer output.

Social Networking: Application and Interface Design

In this intensely hands-on course, you will analyze existing social networking sites in terms of usage and security implications, and identify design considerations for new application use.

Post Graduate Work

Since graduating from NJIT I have continued my education using CodeAcademy.
The courses I have taken are:

HTML + CSS

Refreshed knowledge of HTML + CSS basics and common practices.

JavaScript

Learned fundamental programming concepts and how to implement them

JQuery

Learned to implement interactivity into website while getting more familiar with JavaScript.

Making and Deploying a website

Utilized HTML + CSS along with Bootstrap inorder to structure a basic website.
Learned to launch and host a website using GitHub and GitHub Pages.

The following are the two websites, with context, I had made prior to the one you're currently viewing.
Click on the image to be taken to the websites URL.

Below is the website I made for my Intro to Web Design class, the extent of my web development at the time of graduating from NJIT. It implements basic HTML + CSS along with Bootstrap.

Below is the first website I made post-graduation to be used as my website portfolio. It implements HTML + CSS with Bootstrap.

Contact Info

If you'd like to contact me or have any questions, it's best to reach me by email at:

jmfriedman17@gmail.com

I can also be reached through my linkedin profile if you prefer.