United States

UX Design

Industrial Design

Service Design

UX Research

Service Design Research

Professional Certificate

Bachelor of Science - BS

Bachelor of Arts - BA

Sylvia Bargellini

Strategic Co-founder

30min Mentoring Session

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Accessibility

Conversational AI

Chatbot

Human computer interaction

Machine learning

Market research

User research

Optimal Workshop

Salesforce

Solidworks

SurveyMonkey

Tableau

UserTesting

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Asana

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

Figma

InVision

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

UserZoom

Mural

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

- Demonstrated need, secured budget and established service design capability, enabling ability to lead an end-to-end, front-to-back, omnichannel service-oriented approach to healthcare product development throughout the organization.

- Boosted strategic growth for 8 new international markets, achieving 113% increase in initial quarter of first market product registrations, by identifying  and leveraging unique design and business opportunity gaps through research.

- Enhanced collaboration, alignment, efficiency and profit by leading co-creation workshop facilitation resulting in a service blueprint visualization serving as a single-source-of-truth (SSOT) for the entire company.

- Increased product output by 25% and improved international scalability of manufacturing processes and tools by utilizing design and research techniques, in close collaboration with the Product Innovation Team.

- Improved customer product experiences worldwide for a variety of clients, including Facebook, Google, Amazon and Dropbox by conducting over 120 hardware and software studies.

- Led a team of 15 thought leaders to identify competitive gaps in hardware and emerging technology spaces (AR, VR, VUI, AI, ML, etc.) for AnswerLab, leading to strategic client growth and sales.

- Promoted from IC to manager for consistently delivering exceptional and creative results and driving both individual and organizational success.

Strategically planned and executed hardware and software research for a variety clients including Facebook, Google, Amazon and Dropbox.

- Sole research partner of Pixel Slate team, defining and developing research roadmap which supported key strategic  product design improvements over nine months, culminating in a successful launch.

- Identified an unmet need, then planned, led and executed research and design activities to develop a human factors digital portal, disseminating key human factors processes and research findings across all Google Hardware products.

- Collaborated with product and research teams to provide research insights across various Google Hardware products including Pixelbook, Google Watch and Google Home Mini and Max.

- Established a UX practice from the ground up as the sole researcher, developing efficient processes from research through prototyping to development, while collaborating with cross-functional company leadership.

- Developed a research participant pipeline of over 150+ participants to facilitate iterative prototyping and effective innovation for the product team.

- Uncovered key business opportunities through insights, steering product development towards greater inclusivity of women and minorities, expanding the potential market share by 50%.

- Unified the product team and company leadership around a shared vision and strategic plan by visualizing a comprehensive end-to-end product and service journey.

Working to visually represent a digital furniture product currently patent pending.

Industrial design consultant, designing, prototyping and patenting a revolutionary beauty product; patented hand stabilizer design (# 9,829,147)

Consulted for the User Experience & Design team to improve Proteus' physical and virtual experiences through research, strategy design and project management.

Consulting, helping to design graphic t-shirt artwork using Adobe Creative Suite.

Lini Design is my entrepreneurial company where I consulted for companies such as Proteus Digital Health, LivWell Health, BrushGuard, Baker+Plant, Swerve Co. and Vista Srl. I also wrote and submitted a patent for SHIFT.

Worked as a design consultant for LivWell Health designing a geriatric healthcare product. It was an as needed consulting job over a year period.

Sylvia Bargellini🇺🇸

About Sylvia Bargellini

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