Hi, I’m Grace 👩🏻💻
A process oriented Product Designer in Minneapolis, MN with over 10 years of experience across a variety of industries. Believes in co-creation and the power of design to facilitate change. Excited by opportunities to partner and design meaningful experiences with social impact.
Pronouns: she/her Personality: INFJ-T
Case Studies 🔒
Provider Portal
Chasing legislative requirements for a No Surprises Act compliant provider negotiation portal.
Includes: Service Design, UX, UI, UXR
Standing up research
From creating templates and processes to running baseline usability tests for a health care venture company.
Includes: UXR, Research Ops
Managing a redesign
The difficult task of being the lead in-house designer during a major redesign.
Includes: UX, UI, Design Systems, Accessibility, Analytics, Branding, Sales
Enterprise Design System
The journey of building a greenfield product, utilizing it to stand up a design system, and then scaling across a large enterprise
Includes: UX, UI, Design Systems
Design Thinking Workshop
Co-creation session with business intelligence customers to better understand their API needs
Includes: Facilitation, Design Thinking, Story Mapping, Design Sprint
Re-architecting Back to School
A strategic initiative to increase organic traffic to better support a content marketing based business model
Includes: Analytics, UX, Information Architecture
Graduate Studies 🎓
Capstone Presentation
I had the opportunity to present my graduate capstone project, It’s Accrual World, in person to a very small audience at MCAD in summer 2021.
Running time 19:39
IoT Lake Watch App
An IoT concept to help navigate Minnesota’s 10,000+ lakes
Solo Magazine
A monthly magazine concept for introverted solo travelers
Clime App
A mobile app concept to help fight climate change at home
Netflix Therapy
Tasked with exploring a consumption habit with creative code, I did an introspective dive into how I binge comfort shows on Netflix by connecting my viewing data and prompting visitors to do the same.
The Voting Pod
Challenged with designing a future interaction that critiques the current state of society, I tackled re-imagining the voting experience.
Quotes that stick around in my brain
“I wonder if I have twenty years of experience making websites, or if it is really five years of experience, repeated four times..”
— Frank Chimero, “Everything Easy is Hard Again”