About
I design digital tools that aspire to become one with people's lives, and write about beauty, desire, and goodness.
Work Experience
Lead design for an internal startup at Labs focused on FinTech solutions within Web3, Crypto, and the Creator Economy.
Taught an intermediate course on Typography during the spring semester. Syllabus: teaching.mchakrav.com/
Returned to BD, full-time, as an Interaction Designer on the Healthcare Diversion Management team.
Lead design for all current and future feature development for BD's flagship data analytics software, HS Diversion, helping hospitals monitor and track any illegal diversion of controlled drugs from their inventories.
Product Designer on the Healthcare Informatics team helping build a database management system that automatically updated and unified drug data across all of BD's client hospitals.
Designed and helped build ReCast's first mobile eCommerce shopping experience.
Built their design system, set up UX patterns, and collaborated with the dev team in building the MVP experience in six months.
Created a web-based design strategy toolkit comprising innovation theory, ideation frameworks, and downloadable resources for startup teams at Fidelity Labs to use.
Education
Speaking
A five-lecture foundation course on graphic design built on visual research and unearthing one's relationship to their built environment.
An introductory lecture to art and design through an investigation of the self and all its extensions.
Side Projects
Critique student work across sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate-level cohorts at MassArt's Graphic Design program.
Final critic for RISD Architecture's Food Futures studio.
Critique junior, senior, and graduate-level cohorts of the department of Graphic Design at BU.
Taught an intermediate course on Typography with a focus on long-form editorial text during the spring of 2021.
Features
Reflections from recent design grads on how they broke into the tech industry. By Rachel Berger
The rich and flourishing practice of designer Kathleen Sleboda. By Ksenya Samarskaya
Writing
An essay on cultural signifiers, graphic design, and politics.