Key courses and electives: Ergonomics, Interaction Design, Design for All, Sound and Comminication, human-centered design curriculum

Skills: Figma (Software) · User Experience Design (UED) · User Research · Usability Testing · Visual Design · User Experience Design

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Sr. UX/UI designer | ADPList mentor | Passion for complex challenges

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I’m a human-centered design leader with internationally acclaimed projects and a passion for tackling complex and meaningful challenges in both physical and digital product design. Experienced in Tech, Medical Device, and healthcare industries, I delight in leading the creation of strategic, relevant, and impactful designs to global markets. Currently a Sr. UI/UX Designer at Medtronic, I part of the User-Centered Design Team in Surgical Robotics. 🤖

- Leading a user-centered design project team of 10+, including UX/UI designers, Industrial designers, human factors engineers, clinical engineers, and software engineers (across a range of role levels, including associates, seniors, senior principals, and managers)
- Supporting various projects through reviews and workshops
- Contributing to design system development

Sr. UI/UX Designer

- Mentored 50+ Design Professionals and Students on a range of topics, from portfolios, to being the only designer, to resumes and interviews.
- Top 1% Design Mentor June 2023; Nov 2023; Feb 2024; March 2024.

Design Mentor

- For the Disaster Accountability Project: working with a small team to implement the company’s inaugural Figma design system
- Led a design team for an IoT women’s health device, including research, conceptualization, design, and prototyping
- Provided key research, user-driven insights, and storyboards for a complex digital system update and commissioning experience
- For Hive Design and Wagic, Inc.: provided industrial design, branding and UX/UI services
For various fitness and sport products: defined design concepts, workflows and visual brand language

Product Designer

- Led projects in MedTech and digital health, where I brought future-thinking ideas and successful outcomes to international and fortune 500 companies
- Led user-research, stakeholder interviews, and usability testing, synthesizing feedback into actionable design insights
- Distilled insights into design requirements and experience models (personas, user flows, journey maps, storyboards, etc.)
- Leveraged design systems and developed style guides in crafting UX/UI prototypes and design specifications
- Collaborated with design, product and engineering teams to ensure design intent was maintained into development
- Evangelized UX/UI maturity and process improvements, both internally and for our clients
- Mentored junior to senior level designers in Figma and career development

Sr. UX Architect

UX/UI Designer

- Designed custom configurations of top product lines for major clients in food & beverage, healthcare, and hospitality industries
- Worked directly with clients and sales teams to maintain client relationships and ensure timely, quality execution of projects

Industrial Designer

- Provided integral support for business development, marketing and creative teams while managing studio administration
- Compiled proposals and project bids, contributed to design work, and maintained vendor and client relationships in federal, civic, education, and public service industries

Administration & Business Development Support

- For the multi-award-winning ABB Free@home smart thermostat: synthesized user research insights, iterated and refined the GUI, and created an experience specification map
- For the multi-award-winning Checkpoint Neo retail security gate: co-led the industrial, UX/UI design, and maintenance experience

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Alexandra Sieben is a Sr. UX/UI designer at Medtronic in Greater Boston, CA. View their experience, skills and work history on Malakye — the professional…

Alexandra Sieben — Sr. UX/UI designer at Medtronic

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