Fun Facts
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I'm shorter in person.
My favorite thing to do is laugh.
I can tell a hyphen from an en dash.
I've never had a cup of coffee.
I have 1 husband and 2 dogs.
I try not to take myself too seriously.
Philosophy
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I believe design is a capability to be shared, not a territory to be defended. I believe in the healthy marriage of form & function. I believe that every person & every pixel matters. I love a good creative constraint. I take pride in being a master of my craft. My favorite projects have been ones that made me a better person. I trust in the squiggle.
Survey Says
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Clifton Strengths
Empathy
Learner
Maximizer
Adaptability
Achiever
VIA Character Strengths
Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence
Honesty
Love
Humor
Curiosity
Myers-Briggs
Mediator
Colleagues say
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“Carolyn’s work is excellent and her contributions are time and time again praised by the customer and her teammates alike. She also displays great instincts around strategy and proactively assessing our mission and our impact for the client—she naturally asks good, meaningful, hard (!) questions that drive conversations forward.”
—Rose Fan, Federal Delivery Lead
“She is incredibly smart, thorough and empathetic.  She has a keen ability to get up to speed on very complicated domains, distill chaos into a simple story—and design the future of what it should/could be. Similarly she navigates stakeholder and interpersonal team dynamics fluently and respectfully.”
—Christina Freking, Staff Product Manager
“Carolyn is one of the most talented people I have worked with in my career. I have worked with her as she conducted dozens of user interviews, synthesized the learnings, and helped turn those learnings into innovative products, for which she also designed intuitive UX and UI. She has been my trusted partner on several teams, always seeking to learn more about other disciplines and domains to help make products as incredible as they can be. Her facilitation skills are unparalleled; I have watched her run a room of ornery executives as easily as a workshop with her own close teammates.”
—Joe Moore, Senior Staff Engineer
“She excels at being extremely productive with little to no context on difficult problems, but is still fantastic on ramping up on complex domain context as we pair. We have made great strides in the Design community thanks to Carolyn, and I learn something from her practically every day.”
—Kevin Graue, Design Director
“She has that hard-to-find quality where her heart understands empathy, and her mind knows what needs to be done to make that empathy viable. I have no doubt Carolyn will be a known leader in the design community one day.”
—Jason Barrons, Staff Product Designer & Practice Lead