Stephanie Szemetylo

Senior Design Researcher at Food for Climate League
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Location
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, US

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Credentials

  • Accessibility for Web Design
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Evaluating Designs with Users
    Coursera
    Feb, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Introduction to User Experience Principles and Processes
    Coursera
    Jan, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Understanding User Needs
    Coursera
    Jan, 2021
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Food for Climate League
    • United States
    • Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Design Researcher
      • Oct 2023 - Present

    • Research Lead
      • Sep 2022 - Oct 2023

      Guiding research projects in partnership with food industry players to make climate-smart eating the norm.

  • Twisthink
    • United States
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Design Strategist
      • Mar 2023 - Sep 2023

    • Design Strategist (Contract)
      • Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

  • University of Michigan
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Audrey Bennett
      • Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

      Assisted Professor Bennett with developing her Wicked Solutions Domain, a resource for designers to learn about top-down and bottom-up solutions addressing various wicked problems, such as food security and poverty. Responsibilities included developing site map concepts, user personas, wireframes, and data visualization concepts.

    • Graduate Student Staff Assistantship
      • Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

      Assisted the Stamps School of Art and Design's Web Developer and Administrator with improving the accessibility of the school's website and digital context. Duties included implementing descriptive alt tags for images, constructing Google forms to replace existing PDF forms, and tagging PDFs and structuring InDesign documents for screen readers.

  • University of Michigan
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Bruce Tharp
      • Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

      Project: Talk Tools: Discursive Design and End-of-Life Planning Prototyped games aimed to provoke proactive reflection on end-of-life planning. Created a website for the interdisciplinary project team to disseminate concepts for informal testing. Developed surveys to elicit feedback from those who downloaded and played the games.

    • Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Omar Sosa-Tzec
      • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

      Project: Skills and Knowledge in Delightful User Experience (UX) Design Investigated UX designers’ use of tacit knowledge when developing delightful user interfaces. Recruited 5 UX design professionals, administered a design challenge, and engaged each in a semi-structured interview to reflect on their design output and process.

  • Kohler Co.
    • United States
    • Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Industrial Designer
      • May 2017 - Feb 2019

    • Associate Industrial Designer
      • Jul 2014 - May 2017

  • Delve
    • United States
    • Design
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Industrial Design Intern
      • Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Kohler Co.
    • United States
    • Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Industrial Design Intern - Global Faucets
      • Jan 2013 - May 2013

  • Ethicon, Inc.
    • United States
    • Medical Equipment Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Industrial Design Intern
      • Mar 2012 - Jun 2012

      Assisted designers with concept development of laparoscopic surgical tools, in the form of sketching, storyboarding, 3D modeling, and operating Objet machines. Assisted designers with concept development of laparoscopic surgical tools, in the form of sketching, storyboarding, 3D modeling, and operating Objet machines.

  • Fossil Group, Inc.
    • United States
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Watch Design Intern
      • Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

      Assisted designers with concept renders, factory specs, and trend research for adidas and DKNY watch brands. Assisted designers with concept renders, factory specs, and trend research for adidas and DKNY watch brands.

  • Fossil Group, Inc.
    • United States
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Jewelry Design Intern
      • Mar 2011 - Jun 2011

      Assisted designers with concept illustrations, trend research, and factory specs for Fossil, Relic, and Diesel jewelry brands. Assisted designers with concept illustrations, trend research, and factory specs for Fossil, Relic, and Diesel jewelry brands.

Education

  • University of Michigan
    MDes, Integrative Design
    2019 - 2022
  • University of Cincinnati
    Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Design
    2009 - 2014

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