About
UX research scientist 🧪 turned designer 📐. My eclectic background allows me to be a transdisciplinary design engineer. I am currently a Master of Design Engineering candidate at Brown University + RISD, focusing on product design, ambient technologies, and immersive experiences.
Here are some things we can nerd out about: the depth of human emotions, bibliotherapy, London fogs, flowers, people-watching, zombie stats, semiotics, philosophy, visual culture, biophilia, Korean blood types, and dream analysis.
Projects
Breadcrumb is a logging device that allows travelers to seamlessly document their journeys by capturing location- and audio-based memories.
Digital streaming platforms make sharing music feel impersonal.
Spotify, the #1 streaming platform, lacks an in-app share feature, leaving music sent via text/IM/etc easily forgotten.
A wearable device for groups of travelers to collectively experience their itinerary in a fun gamified format, promoting discovery and exploration of their destination.
Work Experience
Produced various visual, design, storytelling, video elements for clients and collaborative efforts in design, books, and education with a platform of 134k+ followers, 3.8M likes, and 458k+ monthly views.
Brands: Amazon, COSRX, Depop, Dickies, Flexispot, Google.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to drive product strategy and to design simple and delightful experiences
- Own end-to-end user journey and all aspects of design execution
- Design experiences across iOS, Android, and VR
- Proactively seek out qualitative and quantitative insights to inform and improve designs
- Participate in UXR and generate design prototypes
Fjord helps clients drive customer experience transformation with business consulting, creative agency, and technology capabilities. Connecting deep human and business insights with the possibilities of technology to design, build, communicate, and run meaningful experiences that live at the intersection of purpose and innovation for our clients.
Co-created ChatBot to increase successful appointment scheduling by 90%. Produced testing scripts and continuously evaluated scheduling systems ultimately reducing production errors by 28%.
Volunteering
Created in in 1994 and inspired by the legacy of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the AnitaB.org flagship event Grace Hopper Celebration brings the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.
Empower women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering and technology professions as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity and inclusion.
The Leeds Young Alumni Mentors Program connects sophomore students to recently graduated Leeds alumni. Students and mentors work through a series of milestones including self-assessments, curricular choices, career exploration, and professional skills development. Young Alumni Mentors prepare students to enter their junior year with a clear vision of their academic and professional direction, and provide the tools to hit the ground running!
Education
A partnership between RISD and Brown University, the Master of Arts in Design Engineering (MADE) is an intensive program that fosters innovation at the intersection of design and engineering. Collaborative ways of working are central to the program, as degree candidates work with a wide range of experts to envision alternative frameworks for addressing public health, education, climate change and more. In developing effective solutions through iterative making and testing, students express their ideas through the objects they create, towards an ultimate goal of improving lives.
A partnership between RISD and Brown University, the Master of Arts in Design Engineering (MADE) is an intensive program that fosters innovation at the intersection of design and engineering.