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Use the form on the right or my phone number (M-F, 9a-5p) below to contact me.

Phone: 206.992.6720

 

 


San Francisco

206-992-6720

Hi! I'm Sylvia Bargellini, a Strategic Design Leader

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I effectively guide cross-functional teams, using design and research frameworks, to build unique human-centric products and services.

Innovative professional with 10+ years of industry experience, adept at identifying unique creative business opportunities, guiding interdisciplinary teams and driving outcomes that enhance process efficiencies, product experience and profits.

With a deep expertise in service design, human factors, industrial design, and research I have a proven ability to identify unique business opportunities and expertly lead and align teams to collaborate and innovate, producing outcomes that reduce complexity, drive deeply thoughtful, holistic and inclusive solutions that increase competitive product advantage and business profitability.

I spend my personal time jamming with my band - I play piano and sing, traveling the globe, cooking, reading and drinking tea (mostly herbal).

Please download my resume and case studies available upon request.

Publications

Leveraging Your Research Toolkit to Test Emerging Technologies (2021)

5 Emerging Tech Trends to Inform Your Remote Research Roadmap (2021)

Designing Impactful Research: Techniques for Meeting the Diverse Needs of Your Stakeholders (2020)

Inclusive AI Design for Aging Populations (2019)

 

Experience Includes

Amazon Alexa

Amazon Alexa

Portal - FB Reality Labs

Portal - FB Reality Labs

Amazon

Amazon

Oculus - FB Reality Labs

Oculus - FB Reality Labs

Shutterfly

Shutterfly

DoorDash

DoorDash

Google Assistant

Google Assistant

Square

Square

Dropbox

Dropbox

Google

Google

Steelcase

Steelcase

Element Science

Element Science

Lenovo

Lenovo

Zio by iRhythm

Facebook

Facebook

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FedEx

 

Recommendations

Sylvia is awesome! She’s extremely knowledgeable and has been a great fit with her emerging tech subject matter expertise. She’s teaching me a lot about research. I also genuinely think she’s a better moderator than anyone else on our team.
— Research Client at Amazon
Sylvia has fantastic moderation skills, and has been an awesome research partner. Sylvia and AnswerLab also did a great job working to recruit from our internal dogfood pool, and rigging up a remote physical prototype setup for effective testing.
— Research Client at Google
I really appreciated Sylvia’s help on a heuristic evaluation. Sylvia dove in and quickly got up to speed on a set of heuristics with which she was unfamiliar (something I had created). She created a detailed spreadsheet deliverable with her ratings and supporting evidence for each. Sylvia not only did the work asked using recordings given, she went above and beyond and tried the experience herself to flesh out the ratings. I’m extremely grateful for her help on this project.
— Coworker at AnswerLab
I really liked Sylvia’s creativity in session design to ensure I heard the right feedback in the focus group sessions. Sylvia’s flexibility to ensuring my project goals were met was fantastic. She was great to work with and really made sure to understand my needs.
— Client at FedEx
Sylvia was put in a tough spot with one of our clients. She jumped in, figured it out and made it happen. She worked with us to get the right contractor to help finalize the project and has been managing that contractor to meet the needs of the client.
— Project Manager at AnswerLab
Sylvia has been nothing short of amazing! Not only did she deliver on the pure UX side, but she was a huge help on the data collection part of the study that helps us to validate the sensor. She drafted the legal documents and took it upon herself to find all the relevant parties and get them to work together to get the project over the finish line. She gave us directions for what the UI should look like and did not get stopped by unreliable/not-easy-to-use/prototype software. We definitely wouldn’t have made it if she hadn’t performed so far beyond expectations, I can’t thank her enough for her contribution!
— Software Engineer at Google
Sylvia has been an incredible partner and made excellent suggestions, and just a really great person to work with in general. For example, she pushed to change certain terms for the deliverables in order to drive change in how we think about research as a company.
— Product Manager at Google
Sylvia is a pleasure to work with, extremely sharp, keenly observant with fantastic attention to minute details. I worked alongside her in a UX/ID setting and learned so much in the process. I would happily work with her again.
— Sr. Soft Goods Designer at Element Science
Sylvia was a delight to work with on a number projects. She managed all the user experience logistics required to launch and run this project’s clinical study. I would love the chance to work with her again!
— Lead Mechanical Engineer at Proteus Digital Health

Click here for another Letter of Recommendation - Director at Proteus Digital Health

Click here for a Letter of Commendation from The Design School at Arizona State University.

 

CONTACT

sylvia@linidesign.com                  Copyright 2014-Present Sylvia Bargellini