About
I am a designer with a passion for understanding people’s needs and crafting products for those needs. I tackle problems with care and curiosity while striving for a solution that puts a smile on the users. One of my life’s great pleasures comes from helping people interact and understand their own health and the healthcare system.
I am indebted to all my mentors and collaborators who had confidence, patience and mentored me in my journey.
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Side Projects
We are creating tools to assess and reduce healthcare provider burnout by promoting their well being and empowering them to love their patients, their job, and themselves. Our mission is to create tailored solutions that are personalized to the healthcare provider’s individual needs. Because the lives of providers are already so overburdened, our solutions must fit seamlessly into their lives, even replacing some of their existing workload.
A weekly eclectic mixtapes with corresponding art, just like the old days! Everything you hear on a mixtape is from pulled straight from the vinyl collection. 2021 will be the year of mythical creatures. During 2021, the art for each mix will be a mythical creature corresponding to that week’s events.
Work Experience
Designer working on operation tools within fulfillment and sort centers. Led designs for guiding associates on how to move containers and safety protocols.
Self service report creation and report centric design system
Helping reimagine the way biomedical science can become accessible for everyone including patients.
Led designs on My BP Lab (2018 Innovation by Design: Health, Honorable mention) and Journey PRO (2018 Interaction Awards Shortlist).
Creating tools that helps people nurture and tend to their plants. Took 2nd place at the 2014 Steel City Codefest for an app for Planned Parenthood. Past clients: Clockwise Tees, Dirt Rag, mProve Health and Next Gauge.
Designing the next generation of Primary Care that is realigning the doctor patient relationship, built around a continuous dialog.
A designer on the Convergence / Fluence product that helped transform the EHR into a patient-centric healthcare experience and assist clinicians in synthesizing overwhelming amounts of patient data.
Designed the Vamos project during a one day hack-a-thon. Vamos was the winner of the CIO Choice Award, $20,000, during the UPMC Healtha-palooza.
Lead designer on products connecting the Practice Fusion EHR with insurance and coordinated care systems. Coordinating and designing the entire Practice fusion ecosystem in terms of responsive design.
Awards
Speaking
Can interfaces be designed to actually be transparent, informative and understandable with respect to our users privacy and still be delightful experience?
No one can avoid privacy! Privacy has become part of our daily lives with respect to technology. Lately, most companies have been doing the bare minimum with respect to peoples' privacy. Cookie banners with just one call to action, accept, or the privacy policies that most people don't read and usually accept without truly understanding what is happening to their data. We utilized in-depth interviews to collect qualitative data on a person's understanding of the key elements of a privacy while using technology, how they evaluate the risks to their privacy and confidentiality and what additional information they would like to have to support autonomous decision-making capacity when it comes to sharing their personal data. We used the insights from our qualitative data to inform, test and refine new design approaches to to provide people with agency with respect to their data privacy.
In these uncertain times of data breaches and negligent data handling, users are becoming more wary of handing over their data to just anyone. Can privacy policies be designed to be transparent, informative and understandable while applying the appropriate amount of friction?
In this case study, we will walk through a variety of scenarios of differing privacy risks, lessons learned and techniques/tools that can improve transparency and support the autonomous decision-making of users.
Education
Industrial Design with a focus in HCI and HCD.
(2011 Presidential Graduate Award and Recipient of a Corzo Center Incubator Grant in 2010)
Mechanical Engineer with a focus on Biomechanics
BS in Mathematics and BS in Mechanical Engineering. Minor in Irish Studies.