# Ana Fucs

> Design for AI

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anafucs

I'm a design leader with 20+ years of experience in UX and product design, working with design for AI for the past decade. Specializing in the R&D space, I excel in translating early-stage technologies into human-centered tools to build bridges between science and real-world applications and accelerate time-to-market.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Lead, AI Agents @ Glean
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Product Design Lead for Agents at Glean, shaping the end‑to‑end UX of our AI agent platform—from builder tools to orchestration and consumption—and driving design practices that turn complex agentic capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy workflows for enterprises.

### Design Principal, IBM Research @ IBM
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, MA
Hands-on design lead and manager for Product Incubation, driving UX and UXR practices in early-stage productization efforts, with a core focus on Generative AI technologies. Lead designer for BeeAI, an open-source platform for AI agents.

### Team Manager & Design Lead, IBM Research @ IBM
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Manager and design lead of the Advanced Prototyping Team, Cambridge. Successfully launched multiple high-impact applications for IBM clients and internal stakeholders

### Senior UX Designer, IBM Research @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lead designer at the Advanced Prototyping Team, IBM Research Brazil. Responsible for converting fundamental research to real-world impact and harness IBM Research’s most innovative work to create prototype applications to forge pathways into powerful products and services for business and society.

### Senior UX Researcher & Design Lead, IBM Research @ IBM
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil
Lead designer for applied research at the Knowledge-Centric Systems group, responsible for UX Research, UX, and Product Design of all projects in the Brazil Research Lab. Developed a storytelling technique that successfully leveraged high-impact use cases for ongoing computer science research.
Worked with cognitive technologies, AI, explainability, data visualization, and HCI.

### Lead UX Designer @ WorldSense
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Belo Horizonte Area, Brazil
Responsible for desktop and mobile experience at the pre-launch of WorldSense – an editorial assistance engine that helps publishers enhance content with relevant links at writing creation time. The project included broad user research that generated personas, journey maps, and flowcharts, which contributed to envisioning product and business strategy.

### Senior Innovation Designer @ MJV
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Lead designer at the Innovation team, responsible for implementing strategic design solutions through service design / Design Thinking methodologies. Worked in projects for The Coca-Cola Company, Dutyfree, BR Petrobras, and MagaLu, focusing on integrating technology within the companies' solutions. Responsible for creating the Data Visualization Laboratory for Business Intelligence and quantitative research projects.

### Senior UI Designer and Developer @ O Globo
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil
Accountable for UX/UI design and developing interactive infographics for the online newspaper. Worked with data visualization to transform extensive information resources into delightful digital experiences.

### UX Designer and Prototyper @ Xerox Research Centre Europe
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Grenoble Area, France
UX/UI design and development of Digital Interfaces and part of the creative team. Worked in the Textual & Visual Pattern Analysis group developing prototypes that apply the XRCE innovation research.

### Research Intern @ Xerox Research Centre Europe
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Design and development of an online interface for an application of Generic Visual Categorization Technology, developed at Xerox. The result of the Internship was a prototype that validated the product created based on this research.

### Research Assistant @ IMPA – Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Research Assistant at Visgraf – Vision and Graphics Laboratory. 
Worked in the 3D Photography Laboratory at the Project "3D Virtual Museum", which included 3D scanning, designing and developing websites, creating video animations for multimedia applications.

### Digital Media Designer @ Midiarte – Multimedia and Asset-Management
Jan 2002 – Jan 2005
UX/UI design and front-end development for websites, software, and multimedia products.


## Education
### Master 2 - R in Art, Sciences and Technologies
Grenoble INP - UGA

### Bachelor in Graphic and Industrial Design
UERJ


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anafucs

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Last updated: 2026-04-13