Crafting user-first design solutions for enterprise challenges

With 3 years of experience across enterprise SaaS, retail, aviation and global health sectors, I connect the dots within complex systems to craft intuitive solutions.

Brown & RISD grad, based in New York, NY

Behind the Label: Improving Awareness on Consumer Food Choices

Health • Education

  • How clean and healthy is the food that I’m buying? Why can’t I pronounce some of these ingredients and why do they all sound… hazardous?

Redesigning a Gig Management Platform with User-First Features
(Coming soon)

Workforce Management • B2B

  • At a major staffing platform, a clunky interface forced hiring managers to rely on customer support for every job post, shift update, and payment, slowing workflows and blocking self-service adoption.

A Technology-Forward System to Enhance Plastic Waste Disposal at Research Labs

Climate • Technology

  • Academic labs generated 12 billion pounds of plastic waste in the year 2020. How might we develop sustainable practices to reduce the generation of plastic waste in this context.

Public Health Work

Designing Humanitarian Aid Tools for Ukrainian Refugees in Poland (UNICEF)

Design for Emergency • Service Design

  • Millions of women and children have been fleeing the war in Ukraine since February 2022. How do we make sure that UNICEF’s Blue Dot facilities are equipped to meet the demands of this emergency?

WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) Behavior Change Curriculum for Ethiopian Schools

Public Health • Behavior • Education

  • Poor hand-washing practices and waterborne illnesses are the leading cause of disease and death in children in Ethiopia. How might we use behavior change as a tool to tackle this?

Enhancing Mental Health and Adolescent Sexual Health Services in Ghana (UNICEF)

Public Health Systems • ASRH

  • How might we effectively overcome the stigma and accessibility barriers surrounding mental health and adolescent sexual health services in Ghana, to foster a more supportive and inclusive environment for life saving services.

Vaccine Acceptance Programming for Africa and Asia

COVID-19 • Public Health

  • How might we boost vaccine acceptance that addresses human behavior and social contexts, to overcome hesitancy and ensure broad, effective coverage.

Open IDEO Challenge: Health Economics and Cancer Screening

Health Equity • Access

  • More than half of all cancer deaths are entirely preventable. How might we catch cancer early —by empowering women to take charge of their health?

A few wonderful people I have collaborated with

Katrina Varlam
Sr. Visual Designer
[Sam’s manager at Common Thread]

“I loved the feeling that Sam could take on any task and say, "I'll figure it out", even if it was all blurry and complicated.

She is an enthusiastic learner, a person who gets things done and looks out for what else can be solved today. With the researcher mindset she has, she is also a dedicated graphic designer, attentive to detail, function and aesthetic.”

Beth A.Eagle
Professor, Director
[Sam’s mentor at Brown University]

“Her strong research skills and human-centered design approach consistently led to innovative outcomes.

Whether leading or contributing in the classroom or on partnership projects like the one we did with the Museum of Science, she was always dedicated to delivering high-quality work that exceeded expectations.”

Gael Welstead
Sr. Service Designer
[Sam’s collaborator at Common Thread]

“Sam is relentlessly curious and creative. An absolute joy to work with, she is eager to learn and build on her ideas with team input as well as confidently building out concepts on her own.

I found working with Sam incredibly motivating - I would recommend her for any team looking for a generous and energetic collaborator.”

Experiments & Play

Future Scenario: A World Devoid of Bees, Four Millennia into the Future

Climate • Futures • Augmented Reality

  • Bee populations have been dwindling around the world, over the past decade. How do we sensitize communities with imaginative storytelling to illuminate how nature’s natural systems will be distorted if bees and other pollinators go extinct?

Learning to Create Fractals Using Parametric Functions with P5.js


Art • Play

  • What started out as a need to learn a tool for data visualization, became something I started fiddling around with, for the sheer joy of learning something from scratch

Breaking The Notion of a Book Being a Box— A Visual Experiment

Writing • Documentation

  • From the synchronized pulsation of heartbeats to the intricate interplay with temporal awareness, this exhibition display sought to elucidate the profound connection between our physiological rhythm and the subjective flow of time.