❀ Hi, I'm Connie!
BA in Data Science, UX and CS at Cornell. On a mission to design sustainable systems to empower the world.
I love 0 to 1 design, as it's where I can leverage my skillset in design, research, and code (I made this website!) and have worked for six different companies ranging in size and mission. Beyond work, I enjoy bringing people together to drive change. At Hack4Impact, I founded the design team and led national design education. I also co-founded an open UX Design club at Cornell to increase access to a design community.
I'm deeply interested in how tech intersects with creativity and public benefit. On the side, I'm researching fact-checking in India under Professor Vashishtha. I love curation spaces in all forms having created a computational art showcase and the layout for Kernel (tech) magazine. I'm cautious about solutionistism, lately I've wondered when to not design technology.
Read more on my Resume
WORK EXPERIENCE
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Dreambound (Contract) • 3.5M Seed Round • 2023
Designing usability improvements to decrease dropoff time and migrating design system from Storybook to Figma.
Scale AI • 2022
Designed 11 projects from data quality to onboarding for 3 products that earn over a million in revenue.
Kleiner Perkins Fellow • 2022
Designed high fidelity MVP for Simple HealthKit (rapid testing startup) w/ the Kleiner Perkins Fellowship (<3% acceptance rate) part-time
NYTimes • 2022
Led and shipped design on system-wide workflow improvements for newsroom tools for for modules that get 5 million views a day.
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Mintlify (Contract) • Funded by Bain Capital Ventures • 2023
Created scalable and future-proof design system in 18 hours.
BuzzFeed • 2021
Designed an editor for social media automations to aid data-driven decision making from user research to handoff.
Civic Digital Fellow • 2020
Designed education section for NIH wiki for Civic Digital fellowship (10% acceptance rate).
abillion • 10 million series A • 2020
Design and shipped error reporting and community growth feature ideation for vegan review app.
Google Summer of Code • 2020
Developed and designed p5.js Computational Art Showcase for the Processing Foundation with React.js and marketed to grow showcase entries 10-fold. Received 6k visitors monthly w/ over 100k views.
ACTIVITIES
Aditya Vashishtha Lab • UX Research 21-22
Published a paper about closing the digital gender gap to COMPASS. Wrote a paper about fact-checking in India based on the analysis of 10 interviews to CSCW.
Kernel Magazine • Editorial Design 22
Created the print layout of kernelmag.io, a magazine about techno-optimism backed by the Omidyar Network and a part of Reboot, a certified nonprofit.
Designing AI Lab • UX Research 20-21
Investigated AI design opportunities in women's health through user research and literature. Did a self-study on image to poetry generation using ml5.js and Runway..
Hack4Impact • Team Lead, Founding Product and Design Lead 20-22
H4I is a 50+ team that builds software for nonprofits. Founded product design team sophomore year and nonprofit product sourcing and research team. Designed a visualization tool for a prison reform nonprofit. As team lead, increased retention by 30% and expanded launch from 3 to 5 products. Created design resources and workshops for H4I’s 11 university chapters. Efforts recognized by Cornell Engineering as Student Group of the year.
Cornell UX Design Club • Co-founder 20-22
Co-founded club to foster the design community through mentorship, workshops, panels, and book clubs that brought an audience of 40 students.
Women in Computing@Cornell • VP Brand 20-22
WICC's goal is to increase inclusivity and diversity in the computing space. Helped direct four eboard members to redesign website and run growth marketing campaigns to an audience of 2000+.