# Shayne La Rocque Portfolio (Expanded)

Detailed page and section index for AI retrieval.

Canonical root: https://shaynelarocque.com/
Sitemap: https://shaynelarocque.com/sitemap.xml
Robots: https://shaynelarocque.com/robots.txt
Content index (JSON): https://shaynelarocque.com/api/content-index.json
Full content index (JSON): https://shaynelarocque.com/api/content-full.json

## Pages

### Shayne La Rocque
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/
- Type: home
- Summary: Creative technologist portfolio featuring UX, systems design, and software projects built across design and development disciplines.
- Keywords: Shayne La Rocque, Creative Technologist, UX Designer, Portfolio, Montreal, Next.js, TypeScript

### Works and Projects
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works
- Type: listing
- Summary: A curated set of detailed case studies covering product design, service design, and technical implementation work.
- Keywords: Case Studies, UX Design, Service Design, Web Development, District 3

### Work History and Education
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/history
- Type: history
- Summary: Professional timeline across user experience, systems design, development, and design education in Montreal and Paris.
- Keywords: Work Experience, Education, District 3, Concordia University, Strate

### Connect
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/connect
- Type: contact
- Summary: Contact pathways for collaboration and project inquiries, including email, GitHub, LinkedIn, and Figma.
- Keywords: Contact, Collaboration, Email, GitHub, LinkedIn, Figma

### Rebuilding District 3's site and design system post-rebrand
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site
- Type: case-study
- Summary: A full-site rebuild that translated a major rebrand into a maintainable platform and removed vendor lock-in.
- Keywords: Website Redesign, Design System, Webflow, Automation, District 3
- Sections:
  - Hero: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#hero
    Summary: Project framing, scope, and high-level outcomes.
  - The Catalyst: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#catalyst
    Summary: The strategic trigger for replacing the legacy web stack.
  - The Journey: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#timeline
    Summary: A phased view of brand, design, and development milestones.
  - Design-Development Partnership: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#design-development
    Summary: How design decisions were translated into scalable implementation patterns.
  - Technical Architecture: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#technical-architecture
    Summary: Platform choices and automation flow for maintainable publishing operations.
  - User Experience: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#user-experience
    Summary: Interaction and content decisions designed to support entrepreneurship journeys.
  - Launch and Impact: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#launch-impact
    Summary: Measured outcomes and post-launch improvements after release.
  - Reflection: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-site#reflection
    Summary: What the project taught about brand-first digital execution.

### Doubling response rates through service design
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin
- Type: case-study
- Summary: A service and systems redesign that transformed a manual quarterly process into a trusted automated workflow.
- Keywords: Service Design, Workflow Automation, Survey Systems, District 3, Data Operations
- Sections:
  - Hero: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#hero
    Summary: Context, challenge, and outcome targets.
  - The Story: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#story
    Summary: Narrative context behind the operational pain points.
  - The Journey: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#journey
    Summary: Timeline of inherited process issues and redesign phases.
  - Service Design Problem: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#service-design-problem
    Summary: Stakeholder pain points and service-level failure modes.
  - Founder Journey: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#founder-journey
    Summary: Before-and-after founder touchpoint mapping across submission lifecycle.
  - Form Design: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#form-design
    Summary: Information architecture and friction-reduction techniques in data collection flows.
  - Startup Nutrition Labels: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#nutrition-labels
    Summary: Information design and reporting outputs that return value to participants.
  - Designing for Failure: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#designing-for-failure
    Summary: Resilience mechanisms for data cleaning, retries, and process continuity.
  - Human in the Loop: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#human-in-loop
    Summary: Trust-building checkpoints between automation and human validation.
  - Results: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#results
    Summary: Quantitative and qualitative impact from the redesigned system.
  - The Handoff: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#handoff
    Summary: Operational handoff strategy and sustainability outcomes.
  - Reflection: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-checkin#reflection
    Summary: Lessons from redesigning a high-stakes internal service.

### Streamlining space scheduling with a bespoke $0 SaaS
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs
- Type: case-study
- Summary: A custom room booking ecosystem that replaced fragmented scheduling with a cohesive, low-cost system.
- Keywords: Room Booking, UX Design, Digital Signage, Systems Design, Google Apps Script
- Sections:
  - Hero: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#hero
    Summary: Project challenge, constraints, and value proposition.
  - The Story: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#story
    Summary: Origin and context for the scheduling redesign effort.
  - The Journey: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#journey
    Summary: Multi-phase evolution from workaround to integrated platform.
  - The Catalyst: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#catalyst
    Summary: Trigger event that prompted the full redesign.
  - Design Process: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#design-process
    Summary: Research findings and UX framing used to guide architecture decisions.
  - Interface Design Decisions: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#interface-decisions
    Summary: UI decisions for clarity, trust, and low-friction booking behavior.
  - Three-Interface System: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#three-interface-system
    Summary: How tablets, web app, and dashboard work as one service ecosystem.
  - Cohesive System Design: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#cohesive-system
    Summary: Cross-interface consistency and technical integration patterns.
  - Complete User Journey: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#user-journey
    Summary: End-to-end journey from discovery through room checkout.
  - Impact and Validation: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#impact-validation
    Summary: Post-launch metrics and qualitative validation from users.
  - Reflection: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/district3-dibs#reflection
    Summary: Key lessons from iterative in-house product development.

### 3D Analytics
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/play/3d-analytics
- Type: experiment
- Summary: An OSRS-style 3D analytics viewer that visualizes Umami visitor data as an interactive isometric world. Click buildings for page details, view live visitor counts, and explore geographic data on a world map.
- Keywords: Three.js, 3D, Analytics, Umami, OSRS, Visualization, Experiment

### Check Please
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/play/checkplease
- Type: experiment
- Summary: A kanban-style ticket tracker with a diner receipt aesthetic. Tickets live on a rail like order slips, drag between To Do, In Progress, and Done columns, and get impaled on a spike when finished.
- Keywords: Kanban, Task Tracker, Diner, Receipt, Project Management, Experiment

### Occasional Transpo
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/play/occasionaltranspo
- Type: experiment
- Summary: An interactive map that distorts Ottawa–Gatineau geography so that distances between transit stops reflect actual travel time, not physical distance. Built with OC Transpo and STO GTFS data.
- Keywords: Transit, Ottawa, Gatineau, OC Transpo, STO, Travel Time, Map, GTFS, Experiment

### NASty Savings
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/play/nasty-savings
- Type: experiment
- Summary: A single-page calculator for figuring out how much you save by self-hosting instead of paying for cloud services. Toggle services, plug in hardware costs, see your monthly savings and break-even timeline.
- Keywords: Self-hosting, NAS, Cloud Costs, Calculator, Home Server, Savings, Experiment

### Large Lithic Maker (LLM)
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/play/large-lithic-maker
- Type: experiment
- Summary: A small Flask app for designing AI-generated block textures. Text models write pixel-by-pixel texture data as JSON — no image generation required.
- Keywords: AI, Flask, Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Block Textures, JSON, Experiment

### Markdown to PDF
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/play/markdowntopdf
- Type: experiment
- Summary: A Raycast AI-tool extension that converts markdown into styled PDFs. Features 5 built-in color themes, custom theme support, layout controls, and pure pdf-lib rendering — no headless browser needed.
- Keywords: Raycast, AI Extension, Markdown, PDF, pdf-lib, Experiment

### Replacing the research pile with a briefing agent
- URL: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot
- Type: case-study
- Summary: An AI-native intake system, built in response to Wealthsimple's AI Builder prompt, that generates cited research briefs for startup applications in 18 minutes.
- Keywords: AI Agent, Claude Agent SDK, MCP Server, Human-in-the-Loop, Agentic AI, District 3, Wealthsimple
- Sections:
  - Hero: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#hero
    Summary: Project framing, scope, and high-level outcomes.
  - The Bottleneck: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#bottleneck
    Summary: The manual research process and its costs.
  - What I Built: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#what-i-built
    Summary: The briefing agent and its nine-section output.
  - Design Philosophy: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#design-philosophy
    Summary: Sandbox architecture: knowledge, tools, goal, and guidelines.
  - How the Agent Works: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#how-it-works
    Summary: Research loop, self-assessment, and backtracking.
  - Research Resilience: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#research-resilience
    Summary: Five-strategy fetch cascade for reliable web research.
  - Human-in-the-Loop: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#human-in-the-loop
    Summary: Two touchpoints: mid-run questions and post-brief review.
  - Where AI Stops: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#where-ai-stops
    Summary: Architectural responsibility boundary.
  - Emergent Behaviour: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#emergent-behaviour
    Summary: Unprogrammed discoveries from agentic reasoning.
  - V1 to V2: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#v1-to-v2
    Summary: Evolution from scripted pipeline to sandbox design.
  - What Breaks First: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#what-breaks
    Summary: Scaling concerns and trust calibration.
  - Why This Finally Got Built: https://shaynelarocque.com/works/briefbot#reflection
    Summary: How Wealthsimple's AI Builder prompt became the forcing function for a long-held idea.

## Usage Notes
- Use canonical URLs in citations.
- Prefer section-level URLs for case-study evidence.
- /api/content-index.json is the most stable machine-readable entry point.
- /api/content-full.json includes cleaned page text plus heading extraction.