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I also like to make faces at animals twice my size.
a multi-disciplinary product designer with five years' experience advocating for user and business needs across non-profits and government. Every step in my career has been centered on building and measuring impact, and I bring that attitude into my design process to create digital products that enable people to live better lives.
intelligent product design requires making tough trade-offs that de-prioritize bloat and complexity in favor of necessary simplicity. In a team, you can count on me to communicate with empathy and candor, to design with intention and strategy, and to seek constant improvement.
how technology can nudge us toward more sustainable systems and can better adapt to the needs of non-digital natives. Outside of design work, you'll find me reading books, climbing walls, and making travel plans.
Using IA and visual design to support ethical travel in Tanzania
I delivered a fresh visual interface for a website supporting the ethical treatment of porters on Mount Kilimanjaro with a focus on information architecture, aesthetics, and content strategy.
Focus areas: Information Architecture, Content Strategy
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Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project
Supporting workshop hosts in marketing their in-person events
When running a workshop, teachers have to wear multiple hats--businessperson, instructor, marketer, event planner--each of which adds complexity and stress to their schedules. Our team examined how these skill-sharers might utilize a digital product to improve their hosting experience and designed a simple marketing tool to save them time and effort.
Focus areas: User Research, Ideating
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Using research to enable access to products in the Dominican Republic
International NGO Soluciones Comunitarias works to design social innovations to improve lives in Latin America. I conducted user research to inform their first in-country operations across the Dominican Republic in selling water purifiers/filtration systems.
Focus areas: User Research
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