# Stephanie Lee

> Interaction Design | Bridging Emerging Tech & Human Experience | Research • Strategy • Prototyping”

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stephanielee1

Stephanie Lee is a design leader, interaction designer, and creative strategist, interested in tackling the complex and nuanced experiences between humans and new technologies.

## Work Experience
### Interaction Design Consultant @ Unknown
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Director of Experience Design @ NewDealDesign
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Experience Design Manager @ NewDealDesign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Experience Designer @ NewDealDesign
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Interaction Designer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Lead design of the architecture for Google Scholar in its transition to Google’s new branding and requirements to work across mobile devices. Integrated Google’s new design language and components. Worked as the sole designer for Google Scholar’s engineering team while consulting with Google’s core UX team.

### Product Designer @ Versal
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Joined as a product designer to help bring UX into the design and research process at Versal. Advocated and researched our users- working with teachers and students and presenting process and insights to the company. Transitioned to lead product designer and focused primarily on designing the mobile experience for our course creating and learning platform.

### Interaction Designer @ MIT Design Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | MIT Media Lab
Designed new experiences and innovation strategies for a wide range of internationally recognized companies utilizing the design process to propose new technologies, interactive media, and experiences. Took part in all steps of the design process- trend and secondary research, analysis, concept ideation and development, prototyping, taking the lead in ethnographic research and concept development. Helped lead international workshops for engineering students on design driven innovation.  Temporarily based in Milan, Italy as project lead to increase in-person collaboration and communication with international clients, and to craft proposals for new projects to sustain and expand client base.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Changing Places Group
Led design of new mobile app to explore the concept of social cycling in collaboration with Hubway, Boston’s city bike share. Pushed new gamification features as well as a unique UI proposal leading to the recognition of the app interface in The Cycling Affairs publication in 2013.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Fluid Interfaces Group
As an undergraduate researcher, researched and designed the UX foundations for the emerging education project, envisioned the new system architecture, and helped forge new collaborations outside the lab to expand the project’s scope. Also designed the new interface for the manufacturing project of LuminAR.

### Computer Science Teacher @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Taught computer science to local city high school girls through an immersive summer program. Taught both hard skills (python, html/css, javascript, web apps/jQuery mobile, arduinos/C) and soft skills.
http://www.girlswhocode.com/

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Science Center Summer Research Program
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Wellesley College Computer Science Department
Mined large-scale Twitter data to research communities of ‘tweets’ and ‘re-tweets’ to find patterns and communities of perceived trust between ‘tweeters’. Programmed mining scripts in python.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Interaction Design
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Psychology
Wellesley College

### Cross Registered Student in Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Information Design/Graphic Design in Branding
Danish Institute of Study


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephanielee
- Portfolio: http://www.stephanienayoun.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13