Hi, I’m Sarah!

(she/her)

With a background in Cognitive Systems and previous experience designing enterprise products, I'm interested in building products that move things forward and inspire positive change.

I believe that design should be thoughtful, intentional, and human. In combining my technical skills with my love for visual design, I hope to incorporate these into my everyday design practice in creating intuitive and accessible user experiences.

Outside, I love all things art, listening to new music, memes, road trips, the colour blue, the beach, biking, and going on food adventures with friends!

Currently, i am...

Reading

Tomorow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Listening to

Watching

The Bear, Season 2

Work experience
Sept 2023–

Product Designer

May 2023–Aug 2023

Product Designer

In collaboration with Solutions for Hometown Connections.

Jan 2022–Aug 2022

User experience design intern

Worked with the Analytics Team to create wireframes and workflows for Visier People Analytics through user research, feature testing, and data visualization design.

Sept 2021–Aug 2022

Supported the faculty by reestablishing APSC’s Design System as well as helping with the development of both new and ongoing projects within several APSC research units.

May 2021–Aug 2021

Product Design intern

Worked with the Product Team to improve legacy features and design new features including the Properties page, Chat function and Service Planner.

Research
May 2022–Dec 2022

Research assistant

Studied the perception of correlation in scatterplots under the Correlation Team, which aims to study human visual perception with data visualization.

Community
May 2022–Apr 2023

Co-President

Managed the logistics and resources of eight tech leads and their respective project teams, accounting for over 80 developers and designers at UBC.

Education
2023

BSc. Cognitive Systems,

Concentration in Brain & Cognition

2020

BrainStation

User Experience Design Certificate

Awards
2021

Google Cloud Demo Week 2021

digital existence

Made with ♡, from Sarah

Made with ♡, from Sarah