Bonjour! I'm Julie Repon

I am currently an Experience Design Researcher at Truist and a research consultant at the Neuro-Cognitive Interaction Lab at UNC Charlotte. At Truist, I lead generative and evaluative research to support Truist public sites (web and mobile) and provide research support for Truist Reality Lab (AR/VR).
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With UNC Charlotte, I am working on a project that explores neurophysiological responses of users in the built environment to analyze their emotions and experience of space.

‍I consider myself a design generalist. My mission is to design systems and tools to support life-long learning.

My Career so far

I am currently an Experience Design Researcher at Truist. I have been working in academia for the past 8 years. I have been teaching design and research methodology at the undergraduate and graduate level. I am engaged in diverse research projects on design education, design thinking, sustainable design and neurodesign.

Concept design
Design research
UX Research
CAD modeling
Qualitative analysis
Statistical analysis
R & Python
NLP

Selected publications

  • Milovanovic, J., Shealy, T., Katz A. (2021) Do perceived design thinking traits and active design learning strategies motivate engineering students to tackle sustainable design challenges? Sustainability
  • Gero, J. S., & Milovanovic,J. (2020). A framework for studying design thinking through measuringdesigners’ minds, bodies and brains. Design Science, 6(e19).
  • Milovanovic, J., & Gero, J. S. (2020). Exploring the use of digital tools to support design studio pedagogy through studying collaboration and cognition. DCC20 Proceedings
  • Graduate School of Architecture Paris Val de Seine, Teaching design with Virtual Reality
    (Feb 2022)
    Graduate School of Architecture Paris La Villette, Design cognition and neurocognition
    (May 2020)
  • Graduate School ofArchitecture Paris La Villette, The Function Behavior Structure Ontology, method and application
    (April 2019)

Research dissemination

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