About
A few additional tidbits about me
who am i?
A pretty solid IC
I can start with what I’m not — I’m not the head of design doing strategic vision planning whilst sitting in a boardroom. I’m also not an intern or junior designer that has little real-life experience.
I am, however, someone that’s been the lead designer on numerous products and initiatives that have succeeded, failed, pivoted, and everything in between.
Or, in the words of a co-worker from Google: “Faith drove execution independently even when requirements weren’t available or the direction was fuzzy”
have I worked on ai projects?
Yes! At nearly every company I’ve worked for
At Google I’ve introduced global patterns to display AI driven suggestions to streamline repetitive processes. At Verily I’ve worked on applying AI to voice logs which balance both what people say and how they say it to better measure mental health. At Benchling I created flows to allow study managers to use AI to create first drafts of reports in the click of a button, and so on…
what’s my design process?
It depends
It really will depend on the maturity of your team, product, the scope of your current project and the potential risk of getting it wrong. It ranges from being very textbook — design sprints, gathering user feedback, brainstorming sessions, more research, iteration after iteration to more agile and decisive approaches.
Or, in the words of a co-worker from Google: “Overall, Faith has continued to build tight alliances. She provided very effective thought partnership to PM and is surfacing ideas early to the engineering team to build components that are feasible and reusable. Her reviews on CLs are high quality which the engineers really appreciate.”
What’s my design philosophy?
Context matters!
Understand and design things in context – nothing exists in a vacuum. This ranges from understanding the overall company vision to how your product fits in to the ecosystem of other tools your user will use.
For example, I’ve had scenarios where I choose to not address large user pain points because it doesn’t move us forward in the direction of the big picture.
What else do i do?
Hang out
When I’m not thinking about how to AI-ify and optimize user journeys for physicians or underwriters you’ll find me hanging out with my dog, tending to my worm farm, or tracking in sand from the beach.
Dog tax, Mieke, the springer →
