My happy place is combining critical thinking and people skills to find patterns and build products that cater to a wide range of personas
WELCOMEProduct Design Portfolio
Hi there and welcome to my portfolio! Here you will find a collection of case studies and skill highlights that showcase what I love about working in product design and developing products.
Each of my case studies follows at least one human-centered design cycle and showcases how I can be a versatile generalist with product management skills as well. My favorite UX skills are UX research and Interaction Design.
All of my case studies are from my time at Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotech company that I’ve been with for 5 years and have seen grow from a 200 person late-stage startup to a 1500 person public company. I started my tenure there as a product manager, but found that my skills and interests more closely aligned with Product Design. I’ve spent most of my time working at the intersection of software and lab automation.
I am very comfortable working cross functionally and closely collaborating with users, product and engineering. I strongly believe that forming good relationships is the foundation to building a good product. I can both lead teams and work on a team towards a cross-cutting feature.
SKILLSTOOLSInformation Architecture
Interaction Design
Information Hierarchy
SQL
Prototyping and Wireframing
UX Strategy
Roadmapping
UX Research
Atlassian Confluence
User Flows
Adobe Illustrator
Dovetail
Figma
Google Workspace
Mural
MySQL/Snowflake
JIRA
“I’ve been consistently impressed with Hanna’s ability to get large, long-term projects actually finished, which was difficult in our organization. Her work on liquid transfers showed that she comprehensively understood user needs based on her research, and was able to build off of the MVP until users’ needs were met. Throughout the iterative releases, Hanna took the time to measure the usability and impact of what was released, as well as the remaining gaps, and stayed dedicated to advocating for continued improvements. Research is ongoing, and we are still uncovering some additional needs and use cases, but we also have scientists whose needs are covered, who enjoy the new experience, and no longer use the old version. On top of all this, Hanna is so fun to work with, and frequently contributes to positive team culture. I will truly miss working with her!”
UX Researcher on my Product Design Team