Charlie Gedeon🇨🇦
Senior Product Designer at Waverly
About Charlie Gedeon
Senior Product Designer at Waverly
I'm a product designer based in Montréal. I am fascinated by informal learning, speculative technology, and how the stories we tell ourselves can limit or expand our own futures. I exercise these passions in my practice as a designer, in my lectures and workshops as an educator, and in my ideas as a writer.
I lecture a course at Concordia University called Creativity, Innovation, and Critical Thinking for engineering graduate students about the fundamentals of design.
Previously, I have worked with a variety of startups using algorithms in unique applications. At Waverly, I was designing tools to help people build content recommendation algorithms using natural language processing. At Ground News, I relaunched their full web platform to combat media bias, resulting in 4x growth. At Wrk Technologies, I set up the design system that took into account over 1,000 different actions for their human-in-the-loop robotic process automation system.
In 2012, I helped found District 3, one of Canada's largest university incubators. When I returned in 2018, I developed a student residency program which enables students to learn hands-on and launch impactful projects. Under my supervision, the program resulted in a variety of successful projects including BOLO, the breakthrough police community engagement program that was rolled out across Canada.
In 2016, I completed the Interaction Design Program at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction design. My projects have been exhibited in Amsterdam, Tokyo, Zagreb, Warsaw, and on the official Arduino blog.
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Sessions with Charlie Gedeon
- Mentorship Session (30 min): General mentorship