Ashley Wang

Product Designer at Opensea

wshitian12@gmail.com

Ashley is a product designer at Opensea, the largest NFT marketplace. Previously, Ashley has designed at Spotify, BCG Digital Ventures and LinkedIn. Ashley studied HCI and Design at CMU.

Marlena Morshead

Meta, former 1300 TA

marlenamorshead@gmail.com

I'm a senior product designer currently based in Los Angeles, CA. I joined Meta (FKA Facebook) in 2017 and spent my first 4 years at the company working on small business and advertising tools across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. In July 2021, I transferred to Instagram’s blockchain platform team where I currently lead design for web3 product experiences like NFTs. Prior to Meta, I spent some time at a start up and interned at IBM. At Brown, I dual concentrated in Computer Science and Modern Culture and Media. I was also an HTA for CS1300, a member of the Brown Women's crew team and the design director for Brown Political Review.

Gifford Cheung

Sr UX Researcher at Nintendo

giffordcheung@gmail.com

I am a Sr UX Researcher within a division of Nintendo that primarily supports developer tools. Our UX team works with tool and game developers. We sometimes solve problems like consultants, but are also embedded on developer teams. My methods range from qualitative (user studies, task-based, interviews, focus groups) to quantitative (surveys, card sorts, metrics, etc.).

Hannah Chow

Former 1300 HTA

hannah.chow@gmail.com

Hannah Chow ('20) is a UX Designer for Microsoft living in Seattle, WA. While studying at Brown she concentrated in Computer Science, took cs1300 in Fall '17, and HTA'd c1300 in Fall '18. Aside from zooming her cursor around Figma files at 2 AM, she also enjoys binge-watching Survivor, religiously solving the NYT crossword each morning, and caring too much about winning at weekly bar trivia.

Zach Deocadiz

Former 1300 TA

zkdeocadiz@gmail.com

Zach is currently a Sr Designer at FitXR, working on the future of XR fitness. Previously, he worked as a designer at Within, creating AR and VR products such as Wonderscope and Supernatural, and as a VR UI/UX designer at Vicarious Surgical, working on the future of single port robots combined with VR and 3D screen technology. They graduated from RISD in 2017 with a BFA in Graphic Design.

Irene Rae

Senior Staff UX at Google

Irene is a Senior Staff UX Researcher at Google. Previously, she worked at Databricks as well as Microsoft on the Data Platforms team.

Clara Kliman-Silver

UX Research Manager at Google

klimansilver@google.com

Clara Kliman-Silver '13 is a UX research manager at Google, leading a team focused on design systems and tools. Throughout her career she has studied tooling and workflows across a variety of domains, designer and developer productivity, and artificial intelligence. She previously worked as a UX designer in the healthcare and AI spaces. At Brown she concentrated in Cognitive Science, worked in 3D shape perception and psycholinguistics research labs, and enjoyed riding her bike around Providence.

Sophia Xu

Interaction Designer at SmartDesign

sophia.xu@smartdesignworldwide.com

Hi! I’m Sophia, an interaction designer at Smart Design. I graduated from RISD in Industrial Design and actually took this class you guys are in right now! I’ve worked in the toy industry a bit and at a different strategic and creative consultancy agency before coming to Smart Design, a design agency based in Brooklyn, NY. Some cool projects I’ve worked on here include designing for a smart fridge, helping Meta co-design with teens and parents to create a safer platform, user testing with a fitness company, researching what makes experiences feel premium, and my current project is on omnichannel shopping experiences for global youth!

Aaditya Ailawadhi

Former 1300 student

aailawad@alumni.risd.edu

Aaditya is a UX Designer at Amazon. Previously, he worked as a Product Designer at Microsoft, Unqork, and Commonstock. He lives in Seattle, loves cars, and misses Bajas on Thayer street.

Niko Klein

Product at Figma

Twitter: @nikolasklein

Nikolas Klein works as a product designer at Figma since early 2018. Since then, he has been focused on the Figma editor and, in there, primarily on Prototyping. He has studied in Germany and now lives in San Francisco.

Reet Agrawal

Former 1300 student

reetagrawal16@gmail.com

Reet currently works as an Interaction Designer at an agency, Code and Theory. She graduated '21.5 with a concentration in Computer Science and tried her best to get into any and all RISD classes otherwise. She's interned as a UX engineer before and is happy to help anyone considering hybrid roles or transitioning between design and development.