Andrea Castaneda
Information Architect
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrea Castaneda is an information architect and interactive media designer with a decade of experience blending user-centered design, HCI research, and practical UX delivery across academia and industry. Currently at the University of Victoria, she defines information architectures, builds high-fidelity prototypes, and runs usability studies informed by her master’s research in constructive visualization and visualization literacy for young learners. Her background spans marketing-driven interactive installations to teaching HCI and information visualization courses, giving her a rare mix of hands-on production, pedagogy, and research rigor. She’s particularly focused on making personal data more reflective and understandable through constructive visualization, bringing empathy and design thinking to technical solutions. Colleagues describe her as analytically sharp, communicative, and comfortable leading cross-disciplinary projects from user research to tested implementations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of VictoriaInteractive Media Designer, Design, Human Computer Interaction, Interactive Media Designer, Design, Human Computer Interaction at Universidad ICESI
Spanish, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
Andrecastan/polytipe-projects
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
repositorioproyectos
jkclai/CSC503_Project
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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