AI-enabled learning
AI-Enabled
Design Studio
A prototype that helps design students move from “this feels off” to a specific next revision, using critique tied to the decisions visible in their work.
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Merlino
I design learning experiences that connect creative practice, education, and career opportunity.
My work uses creativity to reshape how people perceive and interact with the world around them. I connect creative practice, education, and career—building pathways that help people turn learning into a next step.
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Systems for
learning.
Each project starts with a real learning problem, such as feedback that arrives too late or a coach answer that needs a source.
AI-Enabled
Coach training system
Coach Training
ANN
An internal tool for training AI course coaches. Course teams specify which materials the coach can treat as authoritative, review sample responses, and catch answers that cannot be supported by those materials before a student sees them.
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AI learning platform
Thinking
Through AI
I led learning and workforce work for a mobile AI platform, from product choices to training pathways used with more than 300 partner organizations.
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Workbench
A learning system for a master's-level course. Students upload a wireframe, receive a one-off synthetic user-testing dataset, then practice making a defensible design change from the evidence.
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Skill EQ
Dashboard
A live system that turned xAPI learning activity into a skills dashboard so learners could see how their work mapped to program competencies and what skill to practice next.
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Music
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