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desgnr @ atlassian

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

Graduated in 3 years

Research project accepted as a poster in ACM Compass

Investigating the Digital Gender Gap in Ghana, South Africa, and India

“Fact-checks are for the Top 0.1%”: Examining Reach, Awareness, and Relevance of Fact-Checking in Rural India

Creative computing art exhibition I coded and designed

p5.js Showcase

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

Co-Founder

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.

Product Designer

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

KP Design Fellow

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

Research Assistant

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.

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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JjykhuCe19t2fGWp2xTRWyc_cmBE2Rgh-bBGEWtMIng/edit).

Team Lead, Founding Design Lead

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 

Developer

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.

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.

Civic Digital Design Fellow

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)

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.

connie

2024