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Anna is a UX design research consultant who finds joy in helping multi-disciplinary teams create opportunities for rewarding human-technology collaborations. She is interested in multimodal product ecosystems, graceful human-computer interactions, and thoughtful applications of artificial intelligence. Anna works with a variety of corporate, startup, and academic clients, focusing primarily on Healthcare Technology. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Anna held UX leadership roles at 3M and PPG. She teaches graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute and co-chairs the Pittsburgh chapter of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.