About

I'm a designer living in Melbourne
I'm interested in socially conscious design and achieving positive social change through the use of digital technology. I'm transgender and use she/her pronouns.

Experience

• June 2021
  — Present

  Experience designer

  ByMany

  I design and build digital products and services to help small to medium businesses improve their organisational culture and how they cultivate leadership skills

• July 2020
  — June 2021

  Service designer

  Victoria Legal Aid

  Working as a service designer for the Digital Legal Aid team, to deliver digital products to aid VLA. Worked on CaPP, a green-fields case and client management system, as well as help before court, a recent, highly acclaimed public facing client intake service. Responsibilities include: developing both low and high fidelity wireframes and prototypes, user journey maps, service blueprints and other design artifacts, running co-design workshops, conducting user testing sessions, design discovery and identifying user needs through a variety of research methods, working in an agile environment with practioners from a variety of fields including business analysts, data analysts, developers, project managers, and of course legal practioners.

• Oct 2019
  — Dec 2019

  Contract design researcher

  Paper Giant

  I worked as a design researcher on the LGBTIQ Legal Serivce website project with Paper Giant. Responsibilities include: designing and facilitating research and co-design workshops, synthesizing changes from user research, developing information architecture, wireframes, high fidelity prototypes.

• Jul 2019
  — Oct 2019

  Coles level 1 IT support

  Probe

  Providing level one, IT support to Cole’s employees across various coles brands, including supermarkets and head office staff.

• Jul 2018
  — Dec 2018

  Studio Technician

  RMIT University

  Maintained and helped students use studio equipment including 3D and traditional printers and soldering stations.

• Jun 2018
  — Aug 2019

  Gender Diverse Consultant

  Escape Velocity Project (Collaboration between Minus18 and St Martins youth theatre)

  Worked with young gender diverse people to help develop and produce a digital campaign to raise awareness around difficulties trans and gender diverse people experience in accessing public services and exisiting in public spaces.

• Mar 2018
  — Dec 2018

  Event Staff

  RMIT University

  Was involved with ticketing, bump-in, bump- out, explaining RMIT’s creative student programs, and directing students to support. Also bartending and ticket sales for RMIT Gallery events.

• Jan 2019
  — Present

  Committee member

  Service Design Melbourne design and ethics comittee

  I'm part of the design and ethics committee for 2019, helping develop and facilitate discussions and workshops with practioners on the intersections between industry and practice, and the ethical areas we deal with.

• Jan 2019
  — Present

  Organiser

  Trans and Gender diverse in Tech slack group

  TGD in Tech is a community for transgender and gender diverse people who work in technology and creative industries. It’s a place to amplify and encourage one another, share our work, build networks and also to give and receive support.

• Jan 2019
  — Dec 2019

  Organisational comittee for Civic makers meetup

  Code for Australia

  Helped organise and faciliate the civic makers meetup which is a collection of practioners from various fields who have a keen interest in grassroots design and improving civic services.

Education

• Mar 2014
  — Dec 2018

  Bachelor of Industrial Design Honours

  RMIT University

  Graduated with first class honours. Specialised in conceptual design, service design, digital interaction design, human computer interface design, systems design and inclusive human centred product design.

• Jan 2013
  — Dec 2013

  Certificate IV in Screen and Media

  Eltham College

  Film planning, production, and editing.