I use an extensive set of design tools to advocate for users, source data to inform decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build products that work best for both customers and companies. My goal is to create effective, usable experiences that embrace the unavoidable act of being human.
Currently, I'm the Director of Design at Osso VR. In my free time, I write articles about design in VR, mentor product designers, snowboard, explore the backcountry, and travel extensively with my husband.
Work
What I've been up to in the past few years.
Osso VR
Surgical training simulation platform
Tomorrow Today Labs
VR physics interaction framework
Avvo
Legal services e-commerce platform
Osso VR
A just-in-time surgical training platform.
Osso VR is the leading clinically-validated VR training platform for surgeons, hospital staff, and medical device sales teams. Our users get hands-on training in an immersive training environment with cutting-edge procedures and technology. The sophisticated analytics dashboard provides performance feedback and direction on areas of improvement.
The team is currently focused on solving training gaps for orthopedic and spine therapies, but is also expanding into other specialties and procedures.
Notable projects: Total Knee Replacement, Partial Knee Replacement, Anterior Hip Replacement, SCFE hip pinning, Intramedullary & cephalomedullary nails, Precision and accuracy surgical scoring, C-arm & fluoroscopy operation, Performance analytics, Collaborative multi-user training
Notable achievements: Recipient of grants from the NIH and NHS, published validation study in partnership with UCLA, one of Fast Company's most innovative companies in 2019, US Dept of Education EdSim Challenge Winner, selected as TEDMED Hive startup
NewtonVR
A widely-used, open-source physics interaction framework for Unity.
The NewtonVR interaction system allows users to pick up, drop, throw, and use held objects in VR as they naturally would behave in real life. Objects don't pass through other objects (rigidbodies) or the environment (non-rigidbodies). Instead, held objects interact with other rigidbodies naturally by taking mass into account.
Objects can be configured to be picked up at any point, or when grabbed, can rotate and position themselves to match a pre-defined orientation. This lets you pick up a virtual ball from anywhere it's comfortable to hold, as well as pick up a virtual hammer and have it orient to the grip where it's naturally held while in use.
Also included are a few physical UI elements to help with basic menu interfaces and inspire further exploration. You can also dynamically turn the controllers into physical objects on a button press.
The world's first e-commerce platform for fixed-fee legal services.
The Avvo Legal Services platform was built to make finding & hiring a local attorney more transparent, affordable and accessible for the average person, as well as to help new lawyers bring in client work and establish their practice.
At launch, the initial product offering covered routine legal scenarios in business, family/divorce, and immigration in 18 different states. Users would identify the product that best fit their needs, depending on how much help they wanted from a lawyer, and were then shown local lawyers who partnered with Avvo to offer the service they selected.
Shortly after launch, the Legal Services platform expanded to support legal document review products, using the client's own paperwork or by downloading free legal templates from the Avvo website.
