At a glance​

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Well first and foremost - Welcome! I'm Kathleen - I love dogs, traveling, ideation sessions, and low fidelity prototyping. 

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I've come into the UX world by way of accessible healthcare, starting my career on the product integration team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I had the privilege to work across many projects in the organization and came to notice a common thread of product failure due to lack of user research. That inspired my next career step to go to graduate school to study the human-centered-design process. 

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I attended the University of Washington from 2019- June 2021 to study in the Human Centered Design & Engineering master's program. I had a blast learning from professors, course content and my peers. I learned a vast array of research methods, HCI theories, artifact building, persona building, qual & quant methods, and much more in the end-to-end design process!

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During this time in graduate school, I started a product management internship at a fintech startup that turned into my current full time gig. There, I learned the ins-and-outs of building software products for high-profile clients with tight timelines and no time for user-research (instead using SME's as proxy-users). 

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I'd be happy to tell you more and hear about your product challenges in the UX space, please contact me at the email above. 

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Kathleen Parsons

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