Experience

Partner & Product Design Lead

Empatic | Innsbruck - 2021-Current

Lead product design across all client projects, ensuring high-quality delivery from research through to final strategy and design.
Shape company strategy and direction, from service development and client selection, to business positioning and long-term vision.
Creating user-centered solutions with diverse clients across mobility, industrial manufacturing, education, health and more.
Conducting research to understand user and company needs to guide business and design strategy.
Facilitating workshops in a variety of design thinking and user-centered design methodologies.
Full lifecycle design of digital products, from user and stakeholder requirement gathering, to information architecture design, to wireframes, to pixel perfect UIs.

Ameliate | Netherlands - 2019-Current

Developing e-healthcare tools for mental healthcare practitioners and individuals.
Mockups, wireframes, and initial testing of iOS app.
Developing business plan, communicating the vision to investors, and potential users.

Led and collaborated on human-centered design projects exploring and supporting creative processes.
Prototyping and usability testing of embodied productivity and creativity tools for creative professionals.
User-research with creative professionals in France, U.S. and Canada more >

Led a user-centered redesign of the safety and training information architecture, coupled with an overhaul of their website into a new digital safety and training information hub.
Introduced and evangelized user-centered methodolgies, working between students, professors, technicians, and administrators.
Created graphic design and typography for their website, promotional materials, and special event posters, plus developed design guidelines and templates for print and digital media more >

Samsung + eDAPT Lab (UBC) | Vancouver, BC - 2017-18

Lead researcher for a team prototyping, designing and user-testing a kiosk application to teach seniors to use smart phones.
Recruited seniors through local community centers and libraries, and conducted two rounds of usability testing.
Presented work at the B.C. Tech Summit ‘18, ASSETS ’18, and to Samsung R&D, Vancouver more >

Melt Collective | Vancouver, BC - 2017-18

Researched and prototyped creative uses for recycled plastics.
Organized presentations on artwork and sustainability for the community, and lab visitors.
Developed a technique to mold plastic from waste plastic bags, and built a proof-of-concept archway using plastic bags gathered from the city more >

Ck-12 Foundation | Palo Alto, CA - 2011-16

User-center web and mobile app design mockups, wireframes and interactive prototyping, with presentations to the executive team.
Conceptualized and designed a new “Study Guides” feature.
Refined and tested content tools, liaised between development team and science teachers more >

4Band | Mountain View, CA - 2013-14

Designed the company logo, and developed design boards for company-wide look-and-feel.
Pixel-perfect icons and graphics for the music editing software.
Collaborated with one other designer to define UX guidelines and the overall user experience of this collaborative music editing software.

MSc; Human-Computer Interaction Design, with a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

BA; Double Major in Computer Science and Visual Art.