About Me

🧗‍♀️ Plastic Rock Climber

Can securely belay you in a gym

🥾 Seasonal Backpacker

🥾 Seasonal Backpacker

Twenty-one mosquito bites @ Pete Lake, WA

Brings a hammock on every backpacking trip

👩‍🍳 Experimental Baker

Substituted pizza flour for all-purpose flour

🙆‍♀️ Wife, Friend, and Daughter

To the amazing human, two cats, and one dog

Experiences

Designed and optimized scientific and geospatial applications, improving usability and efficiency in domains such as energy and disaster management

Introduced Figma and user-centered solutions for DOE projects, increasing adoption rates and productivity across interdisciplinary teams

Summer Academy Instructor

May 2023 - Aug. 2023

Designed curriculum tailored to accessibility and engagement for underrepresented students , fostering greater interest in UX careers

Education

Arizona State University

M.S in User Experience (UX) w. Distinction

2022 - 2024

University of Washington, Seattle

B.S. in Human-Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE): Human-Computer Interaction

Minor in Mathematics

2015 - 2019

Achievements

R&D100 Award

@ Electrical Grid Resilience and Assessment System

2024

In Software / Service Category & Corporate Social Responsibility

ConveyUX Conference Speaker

2023

Presented end-to-end user experience redesign of the Washington Trail Association (WTA) website to an audience of industry professionals

Neilson Norman Group: UX Certified

Credential ID: 1038498

Resume & Me

Kaitlyn Xinhao He

Making the complex more digestible.