Luisa Vasquez

Luisa Vasquez

Product Design + Data Viz, She/Her

I like to make things: data visualizations, art with data, illustrations, and more.

When I’m not looking at screens designing, coding, or wrangling data, I’m drinking coffee, getting outside, or working towards my goal of creating a hand-made wardrobe.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Senior Product Designer at Mapbox
Cambridge, MA
2018 — 2021
Senior Design Technologist at PTC
Boston, MA

Product Designer for Vuforia Instruct Editor. Previously worked in advanced product research and led UX design for HoloLens View which launched as part of Vuforia Expert Capture in 2019.

2016 — 2018
2017 — 2017
Prishtina, Kosovo

Open Data Kosovo (ODK) is a digital humanitarianism non-profit. I volunteered there during the summer supported by funding from the Dickey Center for National Understanding at Dartmouth College.

2015 — 2016
Hanover, NH

Research Assistant through the Women in Science Program.

Volunteering

2021 — 2021
HackDartmouth Judge at Dartmouth College

Education

2023 — Now
Masters at Maryland Institute College of Art

Pursuing a Masters in Data Visualization and Information Design

2014 — 2018
Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

Majored in Computer Science modified with Digital Art; Minored in Human-Centered Design

TA for Full-Stack Web Development, Design Thinking, and 3D Digital Modeling with Maya

Projects

2021

Lead product design efforts for adding in 3D Instruct capabilities to the existing web editor.

2019

Lead UX & Interaction Design for HoloLens work instructions consumption app.

Speaking

2020
What is an AR Designer? at Boston AR/VR Meetup
Boston, MA
2019
Fireside Chat
DALI Lab, Dartmouth College

Side Projects

2024

In an age of fast fashion, hand-knit socks are a small luxury. This project aims to encourage other makers to overcome their fear of sock knitting and discover a new joyful hobby.

Tools: Svelte, D3.js, Figma, RAWGraphs, R

2022

A data visualization exploring World Cup '22 Players and Coaches' birthplaces

2021

Weekend Experiment: Playful Pop-Up Windows

2020

Weekend Experiment: A small step exploring the bigger question of what hyper-personalized UI could look like on the web - what if all of our interfaces responded and dynamically updated to best respond to our tolerances for cognitive load and visual stimulus.