UoT Team: 2019-2021

Jason Lee

Web Design & Budget Coordinator

Jason is a Business Management Economics B.A. with a minor in Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies.

Jason is passionate about facilitating conversations and coordinating project deliverables. His hobbies include playing guitar, surfing, baking, and reading fiction novels.

You can follow Jason’s journey using any of these social platforms. He would love to connect with you! Also, check out his personal website if you want to learn more about him.

Sean McHugh

User Experience Lead

Sean is a Sociology B.A. with a Concentration in Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies.

Sean assisted in the groundwork, research, and implementation of the Universe of Technology for the Everett Program. Sean utilized human-centered design principles to inform the website’s interactive-focused direction.

Sean has additionally served as an Everett Program Coordinator and as a Website Development Consultant to the Global Environmental Justice Journal.

Tucker Fish

UX & UI

Tucker’s interested in applying the academic fields of Human-computer interaction, EconCS and AI to social issues. He believes that there’s a lot of good that can be done by doing good.

Tucker’s worked on the research and design team for Tech4Good’s Relate platform. Previously, he’s worked as a User Experience intern with Sage Intacct. He’s an aspiring User Experience designer.

If you’d like to know more about Tucker, connect with him on LinkedIn!

Our current UoT website would have been impossible without the strong foundations of UoT 2018-2019’s work.

While UoT 2018-2019’s website was not as polished, it contained all the information architecture currently used and gave us the backbone on which this iteration was built.

UoT 2019-2020’s goal was to finish the development of the website, align it more with the Everett Program, and give interactivity to the UoT tech map.

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2018-2019 UoT Website

Team Selfie

EP Tech Lab

Team Selfie (Pre-COVID)

UoT 2019-2020 Figma

2019-2020 Scroll-Jump Format

As a team, our collective hope is that this iteration is more concise, cohesive, and interactive. Our design attempts to retain the exploratory feeling of the original concept map.

We placed high-emphasis on human-centered design values and ensuring the language of the map was understandable and accessible to as many people as possible.

This project has been immensely impactful on our own professional and personal growth. We would like to collectively express gratitude to the Everett Program’s staff, fellow, partners, and all others who have supported us through this journey.

-Sean McHugh, Tucker Fish, and Jason Lee

UoT Team 2019-2020

Thomas Gelder's Concept Map (2017-2018)

UoT 2018-2019’s team began the extensive process of translating the original Thomas Gelder concept map into an interactive web application.

Primarily directed at nonprofits and Everett Program students as a means of technological exploration and discovery; their tireless efforts provided the framework for envisioning UoT as more than just a physical map.

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UoT 2019 Concept

UoT 2019

UoT 2018-2019 Home

UoT 2018-2019 Tech Map

Wanting to keep within the Gelder format, the 2018-2019 iteration mimicked the spider/concept map of the original pen & paper design.

Each of the five main categories contained its own unique branching graph with links to relevant technologies.

This highly visual element in conjunction with the amount of work needed to be done in translating a pen & paper design to a functional website unfortunately prevented this version of the project from coming to full fruition.

However, what they did accomplish was the framework for what a UoT site should look and function as, something we would extensively use to continue the process.

As a collective group all working toward creating this website; we employ an “always beta” mentality. Not in reference to quality, but the ever-evolving nature of this project.

2018-2019 Spider-Graph Format

The Evolution of the Everett Technology Map

From a conversation and simple pen and paper to a fully functioning web application.

Here are all the steps we took along the way

Click Through to See the Evolution of Our Technology Map

From Humble Beginnings

Our concept map started as a simple consultation service. Nonprofits could contact Everett for guidance on potential technology solutions and other advisements.

This process was developed into a pen & paper concept map by Everett alumni Thomas Gelder. This initial design gave a visual aid to the consulting process and began the idea of an interactive technology guide.

Thomas Gelder's Pen & Paper Map

UoT 2018-2019: First Web-Version

Transition to Online

Wanting to increase access to our tool to serve more people than just our immediate partners and members. Everett set about transitioning the map to an interactive online format.

This not only meant that more people could access and use our tool to find personalized needs-based technology solutions; but that the user-base could expand to be anyone who needs assistance finding new technologies.

UoT 2018-2019 supplied the foundation of wireframes, information architecture, and an overall idea of what a UoT website would be, and how the technology map should function.

Forever Beta

Continuing the work from UoT 2018-2019; the most recent effort in establishing a UoT website has come from the UoT 2019-2020 team. This iteration saw a general polishing & refinement of the website concept.

While UoT 2018-2019 provided essential blueprints for a Universe of Tech website, the amount of work required to build a website from scratch and transition a pen & paper concept to a functional website was understandably massive.

UoT 2019-2020 picked up where the previous team left off, and gave an overall refinement, polishing, and redesign to the website. We wanted UoT & Everett to be more closely related and the map to feel exploratory. This resulted in our current branding, color-scheme, and scroll-jump concept.

We hope our work is built upon in the future. UoT is always beta, not in reference to our output quality, but to say we are always evolving, listening, and improving.