Rachel Bachman

Photovoltaics Interactive - One of a series of Math and Science interactives built in Blend for an MS Encarta project. This piece allowed the user to explore photovoltaics by letting them make choices and showing the energy production/consumption results. I developed the overall visual design concept for the look and feel and art directed the designer. For this piece I did the technical direction of the developer and came up with the layout concept. I contributed to the building in Blend and did the initial testing.

Monocots/Dicots Interactive - One of a series of Math and Science interactives built in Blend for an MS Encarta project. This piece asked users to separate the examples based on the illustrations. I developed the overall visual design concept for the look and feel and art directed the designer. In addition to finding reference images for the illustrations, I contributed to the building in Blend as well as the UI/UX and layout.

Reflection Interactive - Reflection Interactive built in Blend. This was our proof of concept piece. One of a series of Math and Science interactives built in Blend for an MS Encarta project. I developed the overall visual design concept for the look and feel and art directed the designer. In found reference images for the illustrations, contributed to the building in Blend as well as the UI/UX and layout. For this piece, I also did some basic coding.

Meiosis Stages Interactive - One of a series of Math and Science interactives built in Blend for an MS Encarta project. This piece allowed the user to view animations of different stages of Meiosis and then put them in the proper sequence. I developed the overall visual design concept for the look and feel and art directed the designer. I researched and tested Video playback as well as contributing to the building, the UI/UX, and the layout. I did the technical direction for this piece.

Meiosis Comparison Interactive - One of a series of Math and Science interactives built in Blend for an MS Encarta project. This piece allowed the user to view animations of different types of Meiosis. I developed the overall visual design concept for the look and feel and art directed the designer. I researched and tested Video playback as well as contributing to the building, the UI/UX, and the layout. I did the technical direction for this piece.

Covalent Bond Interactive - One of a series of Math and Science interactives built in Blend for an MS Encarta project. This piece took users through different covalent bond processes. I developed the overall visual design concept for the look and feel and art directed the designer. I contributed to the building, the UI/UX, and the layout.

WORLD LANGUAGES: For this extensive educational interactive, I worked in collaboration with the Product Manager to create the UI, interactive design, and color coding schema. I Art Directed the creation of the main maps.

Densho sites of shame gives the user the opportunity to learn about where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War 2. I built the interactive map. Used to live here but no longer there: http://www.densho.org/learning/default.asp?path=sitesofshame/SitesOfShame.asp

Fort Lewis Historic Information: I coded and co-built this interactive as well as doing some work on the graphics.

For the 3D certificate program I attended at the University of Washington, each student designed and modeled several buildings one of which was to highlight some aspect of "green" principles. I designed, coded and built this interactive piece to allow each student to include their buildings with information about them (each building with an "i" has a write up). The interactive allows the user to place buildings on the city blocks as well as to read about them. Two of my classmates helped with this project and I taught them how to use Flash enough to create pieces for the project.

Hutch Kids Site. This site was initially on the Fred Hutchinson main site. I migrated it to google sites. I also wrote a documentation manual so the Hutch Kids employees (child care givers not web workers) could update the site on their own.