Welcome to joeylieng.com

Tomo Tube

Tomo Tube is a web app aimed to address the problem of academic reading retention for students with attentional differences. It is also ongoing product of my Informatics Capstone.

Our goal for Tomo Tube is not to replace academic readings, but implement "training wheels" towards reading them successfully for students with attentional differences. Success is currently defined as number of pages read as longitudinal work may be necessary to determine reading comprehension.

We first started off with research, developed an MVP wireframe that was used to validate our concepts, and have started developing the web app. Currently, we have developed the core functionality and are planning to add more features alongside refining the user interface and adding branding.

I primarily worked on research, design, and branding.

Skills Used

• Figma
• Miro
• ibisPaint
• Jira

Thyrd Spaces

Thyrd Spaces is a web app intended to bridge Seattle residents with user-inputted third spaces within the Greater Seattle Area. It leaves room for "objective" reviews that describe more of the space and more "subjective" reflections that tell stories of the events that have taken place in these spaces.

I designed the entire UI for Thyrd Spaces in Figma, while including annotations for front-end developer implementation.

Skills Used

• Figma

Training Students to Support Accessible Web Development in Higher Education: An Experience Report

This an experience report I had the privilege of co-authoring on the topic of digital accessibility and training students (with me as one of the students). We had all presented it at ACM RESPECT 2025 and it lives in RESPECT 2025: Proceedings of the 2025 COnference on Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology.

I primarily worked on finding literature to review, writing the description of practice and the positionality statement, and peer-reviewed other sections.

Skills Used

• Literature Review
• Academic Writing
• Presenting

Moody Noms

Moody Noms is a web app intended for users to find restuarants and cafes within the Greater Seattle Area based off of sensory characteristics, such as sound, lighting, and smell. The content is also based off of user-inputted places.

While this project names tags on restaurants as "accessibility tags," I now find "sensory tags" to be much more aligned.

I primarily worked designing the home page, implementing the search functionality, and the nav bar, alongside helping team members with debugging. I also designed our logo.

Skills Used

• HTML, CSS, JS
• React
• Firebase
• Github