# Dena Sabha

> Product Designer @ The Walt Disney Company

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dena

## Work Experience
### Product Designer II @ The Walt Disney Company
Jan 2024 – Present

### Product Designer @ The Walt Disney Company
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### UX Designer @ State Farm ®
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Fellow @ Rewriting the Code
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Rewriting the Code is a fellowship program designed to bring together and empower women in tech by offering opportunities for coaching, educational programming, industry exploration, networking and professional development.

### Course Assistant @ University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
HCDE 210: Explorations in Human Centered Design
- Facilitated student discussion about capable, responsible and reflective design as well as strategies for creating accesible and sustainable ideas
- Emphasized the importance of value sensitive design in their design and ideation process and guided students on how to think about their designs in the scope of a human value 
- Provided feedback on students sprint deliverables and essays

### UX Research and Design Intern @ Human-Computer Interaction Institute - Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
-Improved the experience for Augmented Reality Authoring Tools through qualitative research studies and usability tests. 
-Made design decisions utilizing data from research and designed a new user interface.
-Worked in parallel with other researchers to develop prototype of our application in Apple ARKit

### IT Accessibility Analyst @ University of Washington
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Tested and compiled reports on the accessibility and usability of university owned and partnered technology.  
- Met with Project Managers, Designers and Developers to provide accessibility insights and aid them 
   with their design process.  
- Lead collaborations with Zoom, MacOutlook and PollEverywhere 
- Learned about accessible technology and industry standards of accessibility

### Research Assistant @ University of Washington College of the Earth and Space Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Worked on a Rocket-Build-Up with the Earth and Space Science Department at the University of 
   Washington.
- Built four penetrator rockets with a team of engineering students and modeled a space bear trap to 
   retrieve samples using Solidworks.

### Communications Coordinator @ ASUW | Associated Students of the University of Washington
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle
-Helped foster a community for Middle Eastern students at the University of Washington by creating community events for Middle Eastern-identifying students.  
- Communicated about events and opportunities through social media.

### Computer Science Summer Institue (CSSI) Student @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Kirkland, Washington
- Selceted to participate in Google's Computer Science Summer Institute in Kirkland, Washington.
- Curriculum included learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Google App Engine and creating a final project with a group.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE)
University of Washington
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30