ACI Publications
Papers in Animal-Computer Interaction, presented at the 2025 International Conference on ACI.
Product Design · User Research · Animal-Computer Interaction
Megan
McNames
I design products, run research, and teach — with a soft spot for crafting magical experiences for people and animals.
Hello! I've…
- Designed SaaS products Emplify (acq. by 15Five), Malomo, Filo.co & MetaCX
- Designed & taught interaction design courses Ball State University
- Planned & conducted user research as a consultant Ugam (acq. by Merkle)
- Planned & delivered community programming BSU Journalism Workshops (now CCIM Outreach)
- Sent hundreds of dogs & cats to new homes as an Adoptions Counselor Indianapolis Animal Care Services
- Explored animal choice and control as a doctoral student in Animal-Computer Interaction Google Scholar
Recent work
Product, research, and community projects.
Malomo Order Tracking Concierge
A UI templating system for branded, customer-facing shipment tracking pages and notification emails — a working system I built, used, and onboarded customers to.
Virtual Office Interface
A cleanup of the Filo.co interface that brings communication to the forefront. Clickthrough prototype.
Career Opportunity Manager
A dashboard that turns Powderkeg's networking and job-matching tools into a tech career command center.
QR-Based Personal Messaging App
A consumer-grade app for attaching personalized video messages to QR codes.
Visual Designers & the Promise of Adobe's Assistive AI
Final research report from my Fall 2023 Ball State course, EMDD 215: Usability and User Research.
The Worm
An experiment in permissionless, collaborative storytelling — and soon, sovereign digital life. See also The Wriggler, the first fully permissionless expansion.
Rescue Pledge Board
An Airtable template that helps shelters and rescues share animals in need of pledges, track pledges, and automate marketing.
Recent web designs
I care most about
- Generating understanding, and building tools for doing so
- Crafting magical experiences for people and animals
- Working with kickass teams
What's on my mind these days
- Technology for animal welfare
- Animal agents
- Massive & permissionless collaboration
- AI for animal shelters