connie

connie

desgnr @ atlassian in nyc, she/her

Mission-focused designer with 2 years of experience from internal and B2B tools to early stage sustainable consumer and health startups (seed to series A). I truly love design and being deliberate with my work.
I'm interested in specifically the intersections of technology with scalable tools and communities.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Product Designer at Atlassian

Atlassian Analytics and Admin Platform

2023 — 2023
Freelance Designer

Freelanced design systems and workflow improvements for Reward Reports (research lab), Dreambound (3.5M seed), Mintlify (2M seed). Previously at abillion (2020 10M series A), Simple HealthKit (2022 8M series A)

2020 — 2022
Research Assistant at Cornell University

Published paper on ICT nonprofits for COMPASS and fact-checking infrastructure in India for CSCW.

2019 — 2022
Team Lead, Founding Design Lead at Hack4Impact

H4I is a 50+ team that builds digital products for nonprofits. Founded and mentored product design team and nonprofit project product sourcing and research team. Designed a data visualization tool for a prison reform nonprofit. As team lead, increased retention by 30% and expanded launch from 3 to 5 products. Created design resources and workshops for H4I’s 11 university chapters. Efforts recognized by Cornell Engineering as Student Group of the year.

2022 — 2022
Product Designer at Scale AI

Led end-to-end design of onboarding and quality monitoring features for data-labeling platforms for machine learning applications for unicorn startup (7 billion valuation). Worked cross-functionally with engineers and PMs to design and ship 11 projects across 3 product groups that make over a million in revenue. Role cut due to macroeconomic conditions, recommended for midlevel roles.

2022 — 2022
KP Design Fellow at Simple HealthKit

Working on redesigning the patient portal and implementing after care features.

2022 — 2022
Product Designer at New York Times

Led and shipped design on system-wide workflow improvements for newsroom tools, prototyped interaction design patterns for mobile video resizing flows. Collaborated on a 2 week navigation design sprint.

2021 — 2021
Product Designer at BuzzFeed

Designed and tested a new editing feature for social media automations with a metrics aspect to aid data driven decision-making. Worked with key stakeholders to create a scalability and implementation plan.

2020 — 2020

Designed vision and led research for a community feature proposal for the vegan review app (10 million series A) which has 240k users internationally and VC-backing. Shipped error reporting system.

2020 — 2020
Developer at Processing Foundation

Designed and coded the p5.js 2020 Showcase (an online gallery displaying computational artwork by an international community) for the Processing Foundation. Grew showcase entries 10-fold and received 8k visitors and 35k views since launch. Refactored previously hard-coded website to a component-based one with React.js

2020 — 2020
Civic Digital Design Fellow at National Institutes of Health

Designed a public education section for the NIBIB’s IMAGwiki using the USWS's design system through 16 user interviews. Discovered pain-points in the current NLM budget process through user research.

2021

Research project accepted as a poster in ACM Compass

2020

Creative computing art exhibition I coded and designed

Volunteering

2020 — 2022

Co-founded club to foster the design community through workshops, panels, and book clubs.

Education

BA at Cornell University

Information Science (UX/Data Science), CS Minor, Relevant Courses: Intro to ML, Functional Programming, Advanced User Research Methods

Graduated in 3 years

Contact

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