About me

Helena Charles is a freelance Web Designer who has worked on various projects including support services website for young adults with learning difficulties, sport events websites, portfolio sites, as well as a few games and apps. In her spare time she likes to work on physical computing projects using Ardunio, and has collaborated on projects that have been exhibited at London Design Festival, Science Gallery London, and The Inclusive Tech Alliance's Women in Tech conference exhibition.

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Projects

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  Empowered LivingEmpowered Living provide support services to young Adults with learning difficulties. I collaborated to help design and develop their company website including WordPress as their CMS.
• Rec HeadA conceptual recreational sport meet up app which allows users to create their own sports events and users can join them.
• Hazey Jane FilmsHazey Jane Films are a start up film production company. I collaborated on developing their portfolio business website.
• Randy's Wing BarRandy's Wing Bar is a start up restaurant in London. I collaborated to work on developing the site for them with WordPress as their CMS.
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  Judges ScoresJudges Scores is a web application for users who want a reviewing platform for dance classes and dance studios.
• Snappy FoodSnappy Food is a web application where users can upload a picture of ingredients, and receive a list of recipes containing those ingredients. The ingredients are then printed onto the screen, and the user can uncheck the items they do not have, and input any that the API did not find.

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Projects credited in

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  KardiaKardia is a site-specific interactive installation created for the Science Gallery's season titled Blood: Life Uncut. It is an exploration of the internalisation and externalisation of the human heart beat, and comes in the form of a haptic chair. Users experience near complete sensory deprivation, with their only recognisable sensation becoming the feeling of their own heartbeat, beating through the chair.
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  Inorganisms: The EcosystemDisplayed at London Design festival 2018, as part of Supra Systems Studio's show entitled Everything Happens So Much, Inorganisms: The Ecosystem is an immersive installation exploring object oriented ontology and the nature of human disruption. It is made up of a series of interactive kinetic sculptures: each sculpture has an output that affects the next sculpture’s behaviour, creating a chain reaction, leaving a self-sustaining ecosystem of inorganic organisms living in a state of symbiosis. Us
• Equality TechnologiesEquality technologies is a design fiction exploring relationships between gender and technology, finding tongue-in-cheek solutions to common experiences of everyday sexism. It was exhibited at the Women in Tech Leadership conference on 29th March, part of the Inclusive Tech Alliance. Equality Technologies is based on theories outlined in the Xenofeminist manifesto, and is currently in the conceptual stage, awaiting funding to begin prototyping.

Skills

• Physical Computing
• Creative Coding
• Arduino
• Physical Prototyping
• Digital Prototpying
• Web Design
• UX Design
• UI Design
• Digital Design

Education

Web Design, Development and UXGeneral Assembly
Jan 2018 - May 2018London, United Kingdom
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BA (Hons) LinguisticsUniversity of Manchester
Sep 2013 - Jun 2016Manchester, United Kingdom
First Class Honours