My Ever-Growing Snow Globe Collection

Ever since I traveled outside of Egypt for the first time in 2012 when I was 15 years old (I want to France with my parents), I’ve been absolutely obsessed with collecting snow globes from each country I visit. This soon developed into asking friends and family to bring back snow globes from exotic, faraway

Lego Mania!

One of my fondest hobbies is building Lego sets! I especially love more realistic sets of cities and landmarks. Because I’m very detail-oriented and love busier pieces with lots of tiny details, I’ve tended to stick to the City collection (with a few exceptions) since the buildings open up and have so many rooms and

Digitally Translating the Materiality of Print Collections

Re-imagining how we represent print items on the screen Videos, Research Paper, and other resources can be accessed here: https://xsp1v2.axshare.com/#sc=1 A recent conference presentation I gave on the topic: https://sqlnae.axshare.com/#sc=1 Project’s Github: https://github.com/MalakSadek/Digitally-Translating-Materiality/ This project started as my MSc thesis and I have continued to work on it ever since with my previous thesis supervisors

My Portfolio Website

Hello, it’s nice to meet you! Explore the website for yourself: http://malaksadekapps.com/ Project’s Github: https://github.com/MalakSadek/Malak-Portfolio Website Scroll-Through: This project saw me create my own website to showcase my portfolio and act as an interactive CV. The website was coded in JavaScript, HTML, and SCSS and it makes use of Bootstrap, Node.js, and React. The back-end

Product Designs

I’ve always been very interested in designing hardware beyond the screen, as well every day objects like furniture and toys. My only product design project so far has been to come up with four Kendama designs for a competition where the winner will have their design manufactured and sold. If you don’t know what a

Personal Designs & Drawings

In my spare time, I absolutely love to draw out different ideas. Below you can see some of my doodles.

UI/UX Designs

Explore UI/UX designs for various mobile applications and websites! Mobile Applications: Dishday: Video Walkthrough for Dishday: https://youtu.be/DhoKPqCFVno The idea behind this application was to cater to busy, stay-at-home moms who might need to make last minute meals with the food they have available. Instead of browsing by recipes and then buying the needed ingredients, instead

Display Across Campus

Your one-stop-shop for display spaces around campus! Explore the websites! The websites are functioning and live! Explore the Conservative Design here. Explore the Black & White Design here. Explore the Museum Design here. Videos: Conservative Design Walkthrough Video Black & White Design Walkthrough Video Museum Design Walkthrough Video Project’s Github: https://github.com/MalakSadek/Displays-Across-Campus Universities have a number

10,000 Happy Moments

Visualizing people’s happiest moments 🙂 Explore the Website! The website is functional and live! Find it here. You can also watch a video walkthrough here. Project’s Github: https://github.com/MalakSadek/10000-Happy-Moments/ This project looked at using D3.js to visualize people’s happy moments. This was done using a dataset called HappyDB. It is a compilation of 100,000 happy moments

My Footprint

This project took a more personal note and aimed to look at my Carbon emissions in an attempt to become more environmentally friendly. I ended up developing two alternative visualizations which both convey the same information. 1. The Segmented Pie Chart I did some research into other factors contributing to our carbon footprints not mentioned