UX designer, student, researcher. Wilfrid Laurier University.
Hannan Khan
I'm a UX Designer studying at Wilfrid Laurier. I do research, design, and usability testing on real client work, driving schools, and Arduino builds. Accessibility is where I started and it's still what I care about most.
Next up: joining Deloitte as a Business Analyst Intern, Technology & Transformation, May to August 2027.Open to work: looking for a UX co-op for Fall 2027 to Spring 2028.
Selected work
Three projects that best show how I work: a real municipal client, a paid internship, and a shipped business site.
Region of Waterloo
Region staff couldn't find guidance scattered across Excel, Teams, and SharePoint. I researched what they actually needed and designed a searchable playbook built around checklists, not documents.
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G-Class Drivers
8 driver interviews surfaced a pop-up that blocked almost every task on the live site. I rebuilt the site around those findings, and it's live now.
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Apex Elite Security
Property managers check licensing before anything else. I built 13 pages that lead with credentials, segment by property type, and never fake a licence number.
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Physical product builds, service design, and self-directed studies.
Reminder Box
Phone reminders get swiped away. I built a physical Arduino box that uses light and sound instead. Tuning the cue took more iteration than the code did.
Posture Check
Students ignore posture alerts on the screen they're already staring at. I built an ultrasonic sensor that nudges instead of scolds, because students said they'd unplug anything harsher.
Cinema Seat Reservation
The real bottleneck wasn't the seat map. It was finding a movie. Two rounds of usability testing reshaped discovery, date selection, and upfront pricing.
Laurier Wellness Services
65% of students didn't know what wellness services existed. I mapped the full service blueprint and proposed a fix targeting the awareness gap first.
Zinger Music App
Interviews showed people stay on Spotify despite complaints, which is switching cost rather than UX. I designed around three real personas and tested through two rounds.
Money Management
Students weren't short on financial facts. They were short on a format built for them. 20+ interviews for a real Laurier client shaped 15+ solution concepts.
Why I do this
My aunt Isma is the reason I ended up in UX. She lives with a rare eye disability, and watching her struggle with everyday apps and websites made me realize how much design actually matters. If she can use it comfortably, I'm on the right track.
More about meSkills and tools
- Figma
- Figma Make
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- User interviews
- Usability testing
- Surveys
- Personas
- Service blueprints
- HTML/CSS
- Arduino
- Accessible design
- Canva
Where I've worked
- UX Design Intern, G Class DriversSep 2025 to present
- Office Administrator, G Class DriversJul 2024 to present
- Business Analyst Intern, DeloitteMay to August 2027
How I work
The same four steps, whether it's a client playbook or an Arduino box.
Research
Interviews, surveys, or usability tests, whatever actually gets me talking to the people who'll use the thing.
Define
Turning what I heard into a problem statement specific enough to actually design against.
Design
Wireframes, prototypes, or a physical build, whichever fits what's actually being made.
Test and refine
Putting it in front of real people again before calling it done, and adjusting based on what breaks.
Want the full picture?
Read more about my background, focus areas, and process.