Contact
- Email:carissa.carter@gmail.com
- Skype:carissacarter
- Profile:http://zerp.ly/snowflyzone
Experience
Parallel Design Labs
Principal
Parallel Design Labs is a startup design group focused on connecting craft, human-centered design, and systemic thinking. We create products and teach design processes to corporate clients, higher-ed students, and beyond.
Dates:
October 2011 - Present
Herman Miller
User Experience Design Lead
User experience / research lead for Asia Pacific: led field, ethnographic, and crowdsourced research campaigns for greater China, Japan, India, Singapore markets, synthesis and usable translation of results to internal product development teams and sales teams.
Creative explosion founder / lead: led cross-functional, cross-company team of individuals in using creative and design thinking processes to solve internal and client challenges, facilitated workshops with internal and external partners
West Michigan customer experience redesign manager: led pr
Creative explosion founder / lead: led cross-functional, cross-company team of individuals in using creative and design thinking processes to solve internal and client challenges, facilitated workshops with internal and external partners
West Michigan customer experience redesign manager: led pr
Dates:
July 2009 - August 2011
Google
User Experience Team
Dates:
March 2007 - May 2008
IDEO
Product Design
Dates:
July 2007 - September 2007
USGS
Geologist
Dates:
June 2004 - July 2006
NOAA
Researcher
Dates:
June 2001 - June 2002
Education
Stanford University
Dates:
2006 - 2008
University of California, Santa Cruz
Dates:
2002 - 2004
Williams College
Dates:
1997 - 2001