CAREER EXPLORATION
HVAC TECHNICIAN
Aims & Project Details
Transfr’s mission is to train the future of every industry and open up exciting new opportunities for talent across the globe and at home. The Career Exploration product features short, engaging VR simulations that let learners discover a wide variety of high-demand, well-paying professions across 10 career clusters to make informed decisions about career pathways. The HVAC Technician simulation I worked on was especially needed to fill in the gap within the US workforce.
Role: design, prototyping, testing, research, and localization for the HVAC Technician simulation
Hardware: Meta Quest Devices
Software: Unity, Blender, ShapesXR, Jira, GitHub, Figma, Google Suite
Audience: All Transfr VR Clients
Time frame: August - December 2024
Team: Charles Olmstead (Producer), Ryan Gannon (Instructional Designer), Nikolina Kentic (Project Manager), Jay Kapadia (Art Specialist), Modar Dergham (VFX Specialist)
Design Process
Challenges and Outcomes
Designing a career exploration simulation, I gained experience presenting prototypes and product requirements to cross-functional teams, implementing technical and non-technical feedback, and iterating until the design was engaging to an audience starting from K-12 and spanning to adults.
Challenges:
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Learning and using an internal Unity SDK for the first time while in development.
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Collaborating with a core team of 5, and a larger team of 20 designers, engineers, and specialists (VFX, animation, localization) within a short timeframe and on the same Unity project.
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Mitigating and working around merge conflicts on GitHub.
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Becoming an expert on a career path I did not know about.
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Picking one concept from a pool of 20 options and fitting it into a 5-minute story.
Outcomes:
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Completed a 5-minute-long interactive career exploration simulation about repairing a rooftop A/C unit from start to finish.
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Received positive feedback on all stakeholder review meetings and subject matter expert reviews.
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Completed localization, height adjustment, and closed captioning for accessibility.
