# Lauren Javor > Head of design | 0-1 strategy, design and research | AI, XR, Web3 | Ex Meta, Microsoft, Blink Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/laurenjavor I’m a passionate designer and design leader with more than a decade of experience pairing a uniquely analytical approach to design (efficiency, scalability, extensibility, consistency, AI-optimization) with a deeply intuitive, empathetic understanding of people, their emotions, their needs and their motivations. I believe this is the magic that allows me to work collaboratively with teams and clients to create exceptional experiences that people love. I’m passionate about taking a values-first approach to new technologies like AI and XR, focusing on how we can solve real, meaningful problems, in ethical and delightful ways. I have designed for native mobile, web, spatial computing (XR/AR/MR/VR), and tangible interfaces. I thrive on learning new things in all areas of my life from design processes and tools, trends and technologies, to outdoor adventure sports, and I’m a maker in many forms. I’ve worked on in-house product teams and at design agencies leading clients and teams through a user-centered design process and actively engaging in design work, prototyping, product strategy and UX research. I’ve collaborated to design many new products from the ground up, exploring and validating concept directions, defining the user experience and refining based on feedback and data. I’m currently launching a new product with a crypto startup. Previously, I was focusing on AI experiences at a startup incubator, at Meta Reality Labs working on the future of human connection in augmented and mixed reality, at two different agencies focusing on 0-1 product envisioning and validation, and at Microsoft incubating new product ideas in the productivity space. My superpowers are moving between macro and micro design thinking - from high-level concepts and system thinking to UI, brand personality and micro-interactions; facilitating a user-centered design process and transforming research insights into innovative designs; balancing perceived simplicity with functionality; and getting high quality design work done quickly - a topic on which I gave a talk at the Convey UX conference. ## Work Experience ### Head of Product Design @ Heron Finance Jan 2023 – Present Leading product design and strategy—defining the future of alternate asset investing on-chain, using intentional UX to provide transparency, build trust, and make complex subjects approachable, and endlessly experimenting with AI-optimized processes to maximize impact. ### Principal Product Designer @ Pioneer Square Labs Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States Conceptualizing, validating and incubating new AI-focused products. ### Product Designer - Meta Reality Labs @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Working on the future of human connection with AI-integrated spacial experiences in augmented and mixed reality. ### Principal UX Designer @ Blink Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area Blink is a design & research studio that creates data-informed digital products, brands, and experiences. I led clients and project teams through a user-centered design process as well as actively designing, mentoring and participate in the research process. I worked with a wide range of clients from startup to big tech, in diverse areas including mental health, sports, medical, quantum computing, and financial. These projects ranged from early stage product envisioning and strategy to end-to-end product design. ### Senior UX Designer @ Tectonic Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Tectonic was a digital design studio that was acquired by Blink in 2018. There, I honed my skills in expressing brand essence through delightful digital experiences and thoughtfully-crafted design systems. ### Product Designer II | Sway @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Seattle Sway lets you effortlessly create interactive reports, presentations and stories with all the benefits of the modern web: seamless collaboration, responsive layouts, instant sharing, interactive and dynamic content, and instant flips between professional designs. As sole designer for the authoring experience, I was responsible making the creation of a Sway effortless and delightful. I collaborated closely with my PM partners, the Sway developers and the broader design team throughout the iterative design, testing and refinement process. ### Product Designer II @ Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Seattle I was sole designer for a new Microsoft web service that was cut a week before release. It had elements of community, sharing, browsing, discovery, personal profile and collections. I helped conceptualize how people use the product and did all the design work including the UX, interaction design, visual design and design system. I worked closely with my pm and dev partners to build, test and refine the product. ### Product Designer | Office Labs @ Microsoft Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Seattle Focused on the future of productivity, Office Labs was an innovation studio for Microsoft Office. As a designer on the Labs team, I used design thinking to help reimagine the future of work, knowledge acquisition and how we get things done. ### Interaction Design Intern @ Aesthetec Studio Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Toronto, Canada Area Aesthetec is a design and technology studio. During my time there, I helped with design and implementation of the Spark exhibit at the Calgary Science Center as well as an interactive Donor Alcove for the University of Waterloo engineering department. The studio designs and builds all their installations so I participated in the design, 3-D modeling, construction, wiring and coding of the installations. ### Graphic Designer @ Pique Newsmagazine Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Whistler, Canada ## Education ### Ma in Interaction Design Umeå University Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### Bachelor of Industrial Design in Industrial and Product Design Carleton University Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lauren-javor-67ba952a --- Source: https://flows.cv/laurenjavor JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/laurenjavor/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30