Katie directs the Human Science group at MAYA — she focuses on getting our clients beyond the research and into an actionable design solution.
Using her deep bench of human-centered design methods, Katie works with clients in the medical, consumer and industrial sectors to make complex ideas and systems work, for clients and their customers. At MAYA, she has done considerable work with patients managing chronic conditions to build solutions that are both instructive and motivating. She was also a key part of the MAYA team that developed “Food Oasis,” a mobile grocery-ordering system that targets the gap in food accessibility.
Katie is an expert at making complex systems usable in everyday life.
Prior to MAYA, Katie worked in a series of design groups, in both start-up environments and large organizations. She has designed a diverse set of products for critical situations, including a gesture interface for cars, medical software for cardiologists, field-ready mapping systems for soldiers, and visualization tools for intelligence analysts. She joined MAYA in 2008 after a stint at The MITRE Corporation, a government research and development center in Boston.
Katie received a Master’s degree in HCI and a BFA in design from Carnegie Mellon. She recently returned to her alma mater as an adjunct professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute. As faculty, Katie mentors student teams on their client-sponsored capstone project for clients like Bank of America, Eaton, 3M and General Electric. Katie is also a past contributing editor for “Interactions,” an ACM magazine focused on design practitioners.