Hi, My name is Nick Furlo
I am a UX Researcher, UX Designer, and Network Engineer. Let's build something together!
About Me
I recently graduated with my Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Oakland University. During my graduate and undergraduate degrees at OU I worked in the HCI lab and led a research team of four. My thesis focused on optimizing dating applications for user safety. I have over four years of Human Computer Interaction research experience, thirteen years experience in network engineering and system administration, and seven years of sales and customer service experience.
If you want to hire or contract me to improve the user experience of your product, please send me an email.
Publications and Research
- May 2023
- Designing Dating Apps For Sexual Violence Prevention And Consent Mediation Through The Promotion Of Wanted Experiences
- Master's Thesis
- Oakland University
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- April 2023
- Online Dating as Context to Design Sexual Consent Technology with Women and LGBTQ+ Stakeholders
- Principal Investigator, Second Author
- The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- April 2022
- Human-AI Interaction for User Safety in Social Matching Apps: Involving Marginalized Users in Design
- Second Author
- Artificially Intelligent Technology for the Margins workshop at the 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- October 2021
- Rethinking Dating Apps as Sexual Consent Apps: A New Use Case for AI-Mediated Communication
- Principal Investigator, First Author
- Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
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- April 2021
- Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex: The Context of Tinder
- Second Author
CSCW 2021 Best Paper Award- CSCW 2021 Impact Recognition Award
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
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- Conference Presentation
- October 2020
- Supporting Women in Online Dating with a Messaging Interface that Improves their Face-to-Face Meeting Decisions
- Co-author
- Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
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- October 2019
- Towards a Taxonomy of Social VR Application Design
- Co-author
- The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
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Technical Experience
- November 2021 - Present
- Red Level Group
- Senior Support Engineer
- May 2019 - May 2023
- Oakland University, School of Engineering and Computer Science
- Human Computer Interaction Researcher
- September 2020 - Present
- Powerhouse Charity Marathon, Horror-ible Games Charity Marathon, Licenseathon Charity Marathon
- Volunteer Senior Broadcast Engineer
- March 2021 - July 2021
- AutoPets
- UX Design Consultant, Network Engineer
- April 2018 - December 2019
- Oakland University Career Services
- Information Technology Intern
- October 2017 - April 2018
- Plante Moran
- Technology Services Intern
- September 2015 - October 2017
- Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science
- System Administrator
Projects
- October 2022
- ACME Reporting Scheduluer
- Lead Designer
- A tool for scheduling automated emails containing business reports.
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- Worked with Development Lead to design user flows.
- Produced wireframes and mockups for client presentations and to inform development.
- All mockups produced using Adobe XD.
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- September 2022
- Azure Security Score Dashboard
- Lead Designer
- A dashboard for viewing Azure Security Scores of many MSP/CSP clients in one place.
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- Worked with Development Lead to design user flows.
- Produced wireframes and mockups to inform development.
- All mockups produced using Adobe XD.
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- May 2022
- AVFlight Tools
- Lead Designer, Engineer, Developer, and Project Manager
- A tool for interacting with critical data for AVFlight private airplane hangar leasing.
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- Designed, prototyped, and developed user interfaces for viewing, adding, and modifying lease, location, plane, owner, and user data.
- Conducted requirements engineering and developed planning artifacts such as user stories, user flows, UI wireframes, and database entity relationship diagrams.
- Designed and implemented a PostgeSQL database for storing data.
- Implemented the website using Flask, WTForms, Flask-SQLAlchemy, and CSS.
- All mockups produced using Figma.
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- September 2019 - December 2019
- GrizzPark
- UX Designer, Android Developer
- An Android application which can show students which parking spots are free across Oakland University's three largest parking lots using Raspberry Pi’s with cameras and a machine learning algorithm trained from scratch.
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- Created an Android application with IntelliJ that pulled parking information from a database server.
- Programmed and created mockups for a user interface to display parking information to the user through audio and visual representations for an Android application.
- Used Agile Scrum Methodology to complete project goals on time with six team members.
- Android App Github
- April 2018 - December 2019
- Impact Downloader
- Lead Designer, Engineer, Developer, and Project Manager
- A fully automated application for generating an arbitrary number of Looker queries, downloading the associated data, renaming the files, and sorting them into folders on a network or local drive.
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- Used Python and Selenium to automate generating and downloading data from Looker in Handshake.
- Used Python to appropriately name and copy data to network drives.
- Created Looker queries to accurately generate complex datasets
- Github
- Rewrite Github