Hi, I'm Erika.
Welcome to my interactive portfolio.
As you'll see, I like helping people through
designing useful and meaningful content.
What I'm up to...
Freelance
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Content Design
Using Adobe InDesign, I design custom templates, master pages, professional documents, resumes, infographics, brochures. I create templates with the goal that they must be easy to use, quick to fill out, and simple to adjust and customize.
Business Cards
I design custom business cards using a mixture of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. You'll fill out a survey for initial design ideas and then I'll design a custom card for you. We'll then follow up with a video call to ensure the business card meets your expectations.
Experience
Big Projects
Picateur: Where local talent meets the community.
I am one of three founding members of Picateur. We are researching and creating a platform for photographers to easily connect with businesses and individuals in their community. This platform will also allow for creatives to collaborate and develop their business/personal brand.
What I do:
- Research, interviews
- Instagram and Facebook outreach/analytics
- Design and maintain website landing page
- Content design in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
- Software planning/research, UX/UI
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Baku: Travel blog & itinerary creator in one app.
For CSC 310: Software Engineering without Programming, our team planned the software for a travel blog/itinerary creator app. We worked with a software engineering team from CSC 308: Introduction to Software Engineering to program the application.
What we did:
- Constructed user personas, user stories, data descriptions
- Detailed step by step instructions a.k.a. use cases
- Created high definition user interface wireframes using Adobe XD
- Wrote data descriptions and defined relationships
- Designed logos on Adobe Illustrator for use in App

Float Zero: Sensory Deprivation Therapy
For Bus 310: Intro the Entrepreneurship, our team embarked on a journey to help college students relieve stress. The solution we decided on was to provide affordable and easily accessible floatation therapy to relieve stress and anxiety amongst students.
What we did:
- Researched, conducted interviews, surveys
- Applied the business model canvas
- Learned the importance of experimentation and iteration
- Created a marketing video using Adobe After Effects
Foodprint: A label to prevent food waste
For GrC 429: Digital Media, my teammate and I focussed on solving the problem of unintentional food waste in college student homes.
What we did:
- Researched food waste issues, competitive landscape
- User Interface Design
- Created user personas, user stories, scenarios
- Designed UI wireframes for key functions in Adobe XD
- Conducted usability tests and usability analysis wireframes
Small Projects
The Sun and her Flowers by Rupi Kaur– Title Sequence
For GrC 322: Advanced Digital Typography, I created a title sequence for Rupi Kaur's poetry book, The Sun and Her Flowers, using Adobe After Effects
What I did:
- Digitized Rupi Kaur's artwork in Adobe Illustrator
- Formatted the Illustrator files for use in Adobe After Effects
- Created a paper-like background in Adobe Photoshop
- Planned the sequence through creating a story board
- Collected royalty free music and sound effects
- Animated text, artwork, and other elements in Adobe After Effects
Wholesome Post Cards
For GrC 402: Digital Printing and Emerging Technologies in Graphic Communication, I designed variable data postcards with wholesome notes for 40 people. These postcards were personalized by name, messages (I'm proud of you, you're appreciated, etc), images, and other elements.
What I did:
- Designed the post card using InDesign
- Created an online survey for key information
- Used the variable data tool in InDesign to flow content
- Constructed an excel sheet connecting text/images to the document
- Formed files for multi-page and UV ink print
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