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about me!

🧩 maria manaog

hellooooo i'm maria :-)
a design researcher and community strategist driven by the human condition to create people-first solutions.

I draw upon my formal education in UX Research and hands-on experience in project & event management, service design, and digital communications. ⭐️

✏️ founder & editor in chief @ club rambutan
🦺 previously a UX research intern @ honeywelll

Improving KPI Discoverability
Interviews, Strategy, Service Design, User Persona

Defining the relationships between specific Key Performance Indicators and data visualizations on a dashboard that aims to streamline warehouse workers' problem-solving process on the job.

Product Strategy for a Niche Social Media
Design Thinking, User Intent Study, Journey Map, Prototyping

Leading in-depth user research to redesign a neighborhood-centric online conversations platform that is moderated by local journalists.

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Auditing the Collaboration Methods Across Internal Product Development Teams (Password Protected)
Service Design, Interviews, Affinity Diagramming

Discovering what tactics work well and what can be improved between Product Management (PM), Product Experience (PX), and Engineering sectors within an Agile project management framework.

UX, Journalism, and the Google News Initiative - Products to Fight Misinformation
Ethnographic Research, Iterative Prototyping, Interviews, "How Might We" framework

Designing Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) of innovative digital tools to ethically educate smaller, rural communities about digital media literacy skills.

Creating Engagement Solutions for the Department of International Student and Study Abroad Affairs
Competitive Analysis, Ethnographic Research, Focus Groups

Understanding how to best elevate Arizona International's (aka UA Global) online and physical presence to foster meaningful experiences and resources for University of Arizona students.

Improving App Engagement through Customer Incentivization
Heuristic Evaluation, Usability Test, Storyboards, Information Architecture, Prototyping

Reimagining the app's food ordering experience through a new rewards program and modernized interface.

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