Jenny Fan

Jenny Fan

Loves making stuff in Brooklyn, NY

About

Designer, social computing researcher, and artist/DIY enthusiast

Work Experience

2019 — Now
Product Design Lead at Palantir Technologies
New York, NY

End-to-end product thinking and design for a visual programming-based time series analysis tool

2022 — Now
Brooklyn, NY

Teaching MG-GY 8613 (Spring 2023), Product Design Studio

2017 — 2017
Interaction Designer (internship) at IDEO
Palo Alto, CA

Systems design for commercial autonomous vehicle fleet business opportunity

2015 — 2017
Senior Product Designer/PM at Bombfell
New York, NY

Led Product & Creative teams at Series A menswear subscription styling service

2015 — 2015
Senior UI/UX Designer at Applico
New York, NY

Built company's strategic design offerings for pre-seed start-ups building two-sided marketplaces

2012 — 2015
Consultant at Accenture Interactive
New York, NY

Digital marketing, innovation/transformation, and optimization projects for Fortune 50 companies

Education

2008 — 2012

Concentrations in Strategy, Management Information Systems

Volunteering

2020 — Now

Designer for Metagov, an interdisciplinary research collective exploring and creating infrastructure for digital governance.

2019 — 2019
UX Design Instructor at General Assembly
Boston, MA

Teaching design research, visual design, and UX design

Side Projects

Ongoing

Designer for last 5 conferences: sociality, influence, reality, conflict, and power in design

Ongoing
  • Perceived legitimacy of deliberative juries in online communities
  • Using agent-based models in social computing system design
2021
  • Published Data Voids, a whitepaper on dangerous knowledge gaps in search results
  • Developed Disinfodex, a database indexing public disclosures of disinformation takedowns on social media
2019

Prototyping innovative applications of emerging tech like blockchain, IoT, VR/AR, voice/no-UIs, and AI

2019
CIVIC Resident at TED Conferences

Presenting research on participatory frameworks for content moderation on social media platforms

Speaking

2022
Remote

Moderator for panel, Power of Ethics

2020
Honolulu/Remote

Digital Juries: A Civics-Oriented Approach to Platform Governance. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI:doi.org/10.1145/331383…

2019
New York, NY

Presented poster for Digital Juries: A Civics-Oriented Approach to Platform Governance.

Contact

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