Karissa Tabadero

Student

I am a B.S. Computer Science Student in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. I expect to graduate in Spring, 2025.


Interests: Interactive Media, UX/UI Design, Front-end Development, Game Development, Mobile App Development, Filmmaking


Projects

IUCN Spreadsheet Analyzer 2025

Partnered with a classmate and UH Manoa faculty sponsor to create a desktop app that analyzes Excel-based threat assessments from the IUCN Red List.

Software Engineering Capstone Project Python

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ItinerEase 2025

Conceptualized and created a high fidelity mockup of a multifunctional travel planning app.

UX/UI Design Figma App Development

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Aspire-25 2025

Collaborated with classmates to transition Spire Hawaii's Fiscal Sustainability Model from a complex, Excel-based tool into a web-based platform.

Software Engineering App Development Next.js Meteor

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Manoa Study Abroad Central 2023

With four other classmates in my software engineering course, we created a website dedicated to simplifying the process of choosing a study abroad program at our university UH Manoa.

UX/UI Design JavaScript CSS Front-End Development App Development Study Abroad

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Essays

Not Your Average Group Project

14 May 2025

Image source: Freepik, "Software Development Collaboration", 2018 . ICS 414 Software Engineering II was both challenging and rewarding, offering a glimpse into what it’s like to build an application for an actual client. Unlike ICS 314 Software Engineering I, where...

Software Engineering ICS 414 SWE II Reflection

Connections Beyond the Tech World

11 Dec 2023

From the beginning of the fall semester until now, my knowledge of software engineering has grown significantly. Before ICS 314, a software engineering course, software engineering seemed boring because I thought it dealt with writing and debugging high-level programs. However,...

Software Engineering Coding Standards IDPM Reflection

Square One

29 Nov 2023

Before learning about design patterns, I never realized that there are a general set of solutions that I use to solve common recurring problems. However, after figuring out what exactly a design pattern is in a software engineering context, I...

Design Patterns Software Engineering

The Technology Ren-AI-ssance

20 Nov 2023

Using AI within an educational setting is often stigmatized. Most educators view AI as a cheating or plagiarizing tool. However, AI can be a helpful tool when one is trying to learn more about a subject and is unable to...

AI ChatGPT Software Engineering Reflection

The Web Design Journey

04 Oct 2023

Original LINE Friends About Page Recreation LINE Friends About Page Learning about web page development and how to use UI frameworks like Bootstrap 5 can be intimidating and frustrating. However, once you get the hang of it, web page development...

UI Design Bootstrap 5 HTML and CSS

Coding has Standards?

20 Sep 2023

Want to improve the quality of your code and become a better programmer? Great! Following and fixing your program to match coding standards is a great place to start! But wait…what are coding standards and how are they helpful? What...

JavaScript IntelliJ ESLint Coding Standards

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