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Connector.
Collaborator.
Designer.
Cat Lover.
Let's work together to connect the dots across people, product and process to drive user-centered business outcomes. When I'm not advocating for user-centered design and inclusion, I'm probably lost on a beach or mountain.
I’d love to partner with anyone who shares these values and needs someone to pick up an oar to drive forward a product strategy, conduct research, facilitate a workshop, level up a team, design a portfolio or review a resume.
Brandon Mosley
UX Design Manager
Dan Cappello
Creative Director
Jess Wilber
Technologist, Managing Partner
Michelle Ammirati
UX Researcher, Innovation Lead
Reggie Murphy
Research and Insights Leader
Learn More About My Work
A curated collection of diverse projects to illustrate the depth of my experience and impact of my work.
Looking for someone to pick up an oar?
ElleSee Futures is a research and design consultancy focused on helping organizations become human centered and design driven. The main focus is helping people define what makes products useful, desirable, valuable and accessible.
I’ve coached hundreds of people on human-centered design methods over the past 15+ years.
UX Strategy
If you know your user goals and business goals, let's work together to define requirements and the strategic direction for your products.
UX Research
No matter where you are in the lifecycle of your product or service, UX Research can help you understand people's needs, behaviors and attitudes.
Custom Workshops
We can work together to define a cross-functional sprint focused on understanding user, business and technology needs or a design thinking training focused on organizational, structural and people change.
Concept Ideation and Prototyping
Getting out as many ideas as possible to solve your defined problem for your user group can be fun, engaging and even better if you co-create with your users.
A creator's journey from writer to UX designer and researcher
Over my 15+ year career I've lived at the intersection of storytelling, technology and design. My relentless pursuit of user-centered, data-informed design makes me a strong leader for teams looking to make connections between the work and impact.
In my role as a design leader, I foster a culture of innovation, inclusivity, and attention to detail. I have worked in various roles across media, civic tech and fintech.
Leadership Principles
My passion for human-centered design and ability to merge human factors with business considerations allows me to make significant contributions as a design leader and partner to product, engineering, data and marketing teams.
Together is better than alone.
Embracing collaboration over working in isolation not only enhances productivity but also enriches personal and team development. This is particularly evident in the realms of research and design, where shared insights and creativity can lead to extraordinary outcomes. Let’s celebrate the power of teamwork!
Balance autonomy & alignment.
My aim is to illuminate the path the company intends to take, empowering the team to align their priorities and plans accordingly. I wholeheartedly champion autonomy and creativity within our cross-functional teams.
Optimize for inclusion.
Enriching your circle with individuals who offer diverse perspectives can significantly enhance your abilities as a researcher or designer. This diversity, stemming from our collective experiences as a team, is a treasure trove of insights and ideas.
Remember the human.
This is the glue that holds us together. Human-centered design puts people at the center of everything. It doesn’t matter if you are designing for a stakeholder, colleague, user, buyer, merchant or any number of other descriptors. What is important is that you stay grounded in human factors throughout the design process.
Let's Talk About
Musings on design and people leadership.
FAQs
Find answers to commonly asked questions about my services.
We can work together to design a one or two-week design sprint, six to twelve weeks of generative or evaluative research, custom design leadership workshops, speaking engagements, resume reviews plus AI tools that can help you with your search and portfolio site design.
Yes, I can review your resume but more importantly we can talk about the best way to use resume builders to make your search more efficient and increase the change your resume is seen.
I’d love to partner with anyone who shares these values and needs someone to pick up an oar.
Working on products or services that have a mission connected to empowering people to make better decisions and/or make information accessible and actionable.
Coaching teams on how to better understand what makes their products or services more accessible and actionable. And, executing on a plan to understand it.
Getting back to my roots in storytelling and/or civic tech by working with teams to better understand how they can use the power of storytelling to connect, inspire and drive change.
Elevating and advocating for a user centric culture, always being the voice in the room helping others understand how the human voice connects to the business goals.
During my eight years of experience as a people leader, I have seen reviewed many design and research portfolios. If you want to have a coaching session to review your impact story, reach out on LinkedIn or use the contact form above.
Right now I am learning Spanish and immersing back in the work with a focus on how AI is impacting the role of the designer and researcher. I'm also getting reacquainted with the great outdoors by spending time in Puerto Rico.
