# emily carlin

> Lead Product Designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilycarlin

## Work Experience
### Lead Product Designer @ YNAB
Jan 2019 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ Appcues
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Boston, MA

### Instructor @ Startup Institute
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Boston, MA
I teach classes and mentor students in Startup Institute's design track. 

Courses taught include prototyping, information architecture, data visualization, design tools, and others. In the fall of 2018 I was honored with the "best instructor" award.

### Product Designer @ Slalom Build
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area

### UX Researcher and Designer @ Tamr Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA

### Core Team Member @ Subforum
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA
Subforum is an award-winning, multidisciplinary design and research group focusing on the mergence of mediated and physical experience. 

I help facilitate Subforum's meet-ups/workshops (on topics such as remote collaboration, distraction, and daily routines). I've also worked on on the group's research initiatives.

### Rotational Program Associate @ thinkrun
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Kanazawa, Japan

### Lead Researcher and Editor @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA
I worked as a primary researcher and editor on professor  Sherry Turkle's 2015 book "Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age." 

I also created presentations for venues like The White House and the Harvard Kennedy School and helped to design a syllabus for a graduate course at MIT.

### Instructor @ Tufts University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
I taught an undergraduate seminar in the Experimental College called "Re: Reading." We explored the intersections between reading & new technologies.

### Researcher @ Tufts University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Somerville, MA
I worked in Rob Jacobs' lab, researching implicit brain-computer interfaces.

### Researcher @ Tufts University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Somerville, MA
I worked in Dr. Matthias Scheutz's lab. My project explored how personality affects the way people interact with robots.

### Research Assistant at Healy Bourne Cognitive Psychology Lab @ University of Colorado
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Boulder, CO
I researched the use of "clickers" in college lectures. My award-winning project explored the testing effect -- the idea that being tested on information leads to better retention than passively consuming it.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Cognitive and Brain Science
Tufts University

### The Cape Eleuthera Island School

### The English International School of Padova

### Boulder High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emilychristinecarlin
- Portfolio: https://emilycarlin.space/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13