About Me
Taking my seat at the tech table, with my sketch book and drawing pencils in hand.
Assured in my ability to read a room, feed a crowd, and cross-functionally communicate design decisions. Leveraging lived experiences and unique skills across industries, my work creates social and systems impact at scale.
Professional Interests
I believe user behavior through research is the most important step of the design process. When problem-solving, I listen to and observe users to best understand their behaviors and motivations.
Visual Design
I’m a visual thinker with an eye for graphics, typography, and color theory. I love thinking in design systems to transform ideas into prototypes, resulting in products that resonate with people.
Collaboration
I’ve been recognized for my leadership and teamwork skills; I’m just as comfortable leading a team or working within one to identify problems and opportunities that unite people through design.
Christopher Shainin
Senior Consultant, Slalom
Marie has been a fantastic advisor on our web development project, providing high level strategy as we redesign the site for mobile responsiveness.
Paula Narvaez
Product Designer, Facebook
She offered great insight and feedback, generated innovative ideas, and helped revamp our product, resulting in an increase in DAU. Marie is a fast learner, a valuable team member, and exhibits a strong commitment to delivering exceptional results.
Hailey Ji
Founder, HULA
Her diligence in grasping product requirements and conducting in-depth market research set her apart from her peers. Her ability to produce an array of design options that both align with our vision and deliver essential functionalities is a testament to her creativity and deep understanding of user-centric design principles.
Julie Shi
Associate Product Manager, Valley Bank
Her creative ideas have played a vital role in enhancing the user experience of our products, resulting in positive feedback from our customers. For example, her design for our homepage update has significantly shortened the user journey funnel and improved user experiences.
Gwen St. Julian
Associate Director, Kyndryl
She is goal-oriented, creative, focused, knowledgeable, coachable and highly ambitious. I was more than impressed with the quality of content that Marie provided. She truly exceeded my expectations.
Jeff Fonda
Kyndryl Client Partner Executive
Marie was our social media director. She did a fantastic job at building content, reliably communicating and even found other work to take on. She was a great asset to our organization.
personal Interests
Books
I like big books and I cannot lie. I love reading because it helps hone my story-telling skills, stimulates my imagination, and strengthens my empathy by offering perspectives different to my own.
Exploring
Not only inspiring, exploring new places fuels my curiosity, widens my knowledge, and deepens my understanding. It's also the perfect combination of planning and last-minute, creative problem solving.
Croissants
Croissants are a reminder that simple things can be deceptively complex, practice makes progress, and experimenting is part of the process. Mostly, to always splurge on high quality butter!
2020
2022
2023
text
communication
adaptability
Due to Covid, my curriculum shifted from in-person to online on Canvas.
2024
text
communication
adaptability
Due to Covid, my curriculum shifted from in-person to online on Canvas.