Lauren Mosenthal
Product designer
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Hi! I am a product designer based in San Francisco. My speciality lies in identifying and creating MVPs as well as product improvements to reach growth goals. My skillset includes:
Design sprints
Ethnographic research
High fidelity prototypes
User experience tests and wireframes
User interface style guides
Front-end engineering
Liaison between product and engineering
My design-thinking process includes building, testing, and iterating as well as always bringing the conversation back to the user. Having always balanced the skillsets between product design and engineering, I thoroughly understand and have built design systems, databases, algorithms, and passed Fortune 100 security reviews. This background helps inform my product design process and, for many teams, act and teach what it means to be a liaison between design and engineering teams. Thanks for checking out my portfolio of my most recent work. Feel free to say hello here.
Select press
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April 2016Can AI Help Gender Diversity Help AI?
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April 2016How one startup uses 'inclusion technology' to tackle the diversity challenge
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September 2015Glassbreakers Is Launching Enterprise Software For Diversity
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June 2015How Technology Can Help Make Us More Social
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May 2015Meet The Women Who Could Change Your Career For Good
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March 2015How Glassbreakers Wants to Create more Women Leaders in Business
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March 20159 reasons to be hopeful about women in tech
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March 2015Disrupting the Status Quo With Glassbreakers
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February 2015Ma perché la Silicon Valley ce l'ha con le donne?
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February 201510 Women in Tech to Watch
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January 2015What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women
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January 2015Women In Tech: This Platform Will Match You To Peer Mentors, Tinder-Style
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January 20155 Questions With The Founders Of Glassbreakers
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May 2013Mommy's Little Helpers: Creating A Digital Search Bar For Your Home
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February 2013BDW Grad Interviews Denver/Boulder Creatives
Mosss. Lead UX & UI product designer.
Mosss
Lead UX & UI product designer.
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Please note that branding was designed through a sepearate vendor.
Mosss is a better, faster way to design your home. Mosss has both a blog portion that displays case studies of amazing interior design and then has a platform to help design your home.
For a five month consulting project, I worked with architect, designer, & CEO, Jude Fulton. As the lead product designer, I spearheaded user research, prototyping, a UI design kit, and worked closely with the data scientists and engineers to make the MVP a reality.
There is a lot of exciting news for Mosss that has yet to be announced!
Getting things done
- Designed and iterated over 15+ prototypes from feedback from user research interviews
- Helped further develop user personas
- Created and managed product roadmap for short and long term
- Managed day to day product needs for both design and engineering
- Implemented responsive & adaptive designs via HTML & CSS
- Created componentized style guide to expedite designing and engineering
- Learned about different computer vision capabilities to enhance product design
Glassbreakers Consumer. Founder. Head of product. CTO.
Glassbreakers Consumer
Founder. Head of product. CTO.
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Glassbreakers began as a peer mentorship community for professional women with the mission to help women break through the glass ceiling together.
From June 2014 to June 2016, I ran the product team and coded the first version of the product/algorithm. Splitting my time between design research, user experience design, software architecture and implementation, product management and founder responsibilities, I remained motivated to maintain the focus as a user-centric product and company.
Getting things done
- Transformed idea into reality by building prototypes and spearheading user experience research
- Engineered and launched consumer product and algorithm as sole individual contributor
- Attracted 14,000+ users with no initial advertising
- Recruited, trained and directed product team
- Created componentized style guide to expedite designing and engineering
- Secured $2+ million in seed funding with CEO, advisors and investors
Glassbreakers Enterprise. Founder. Head of product. CTO.
Glassbreakers Enterprise
Founder. Head of product. CTO.
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Glassbreakers is an enterprise software company focused on diversity and inclusion. Corporations spend billions on diversity every year to support internal initiatives and department overhead, but lack technology to measure and scale results. Glassbreakers addresses a very real pain point in nearly every Fortune 1000 company by providing scalable software to support employee resource groups and data analysis to measure corporate diversity impact. With a $3B total addressable market, Glassbreakers plans to expand to every industry as the first to market enterprise software specific to the needs of diversity as a core business function.
I spearheaded the UX Research by attending client meetings, identifying the need for employee resource group digital management, working directly with employee resource groups leaders to understand their pain points, and then, designing the user experience.
Getting things done
- Transformed idea into reality by building prototypes and spearheading user experience research
- Recruited, trained and directed product team
- Created componentized style guide to expedite designing and engineering
- Engineered underlying infrastructure for enterprise / multi-tenant architecture
- Passed procurement for Fortune 100 information security review
- Secured $2+ million in seed funding with CEO, advisors and investors
AKQA. Designer. Engineer.
AKQA Work
Creative developer.
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Due to proprietary reasons, I am unable to show my AKQA work publicly. Please read about my work in the getting things done section.
At AKQA’s San Francisco office, I was a creative developer and software engineer. AKQA is known for creating the future for its clients. I educated colleagues and clients on how and which technologies would be best to bring ideas into actuality. I’d then design the experience and build high fidelity prototypes showcasing how it works. I explored a range of technologies from the Kinect to drones to 3D printing to web apps.
Clients: Nike Jordan, Audi, Bud Light, Activision, & NVIDIA.
Getting things done
- Engineered Kinect with mentor Chris Miller to create a video game that measures vertical jump, lateral speed and eye hand coordination by hacking the Kinect’s shutter frame in C++
- Presented videogame to CEO of AKQA, Nike Jordan team and San Francisco company-wide
- Designed and built a series of prototypes including ideas for Audi’s digital presence and had my work presented to C-suite of Audi
- Brainstormed and built high fidelity prototypes for Activision and NVIDIA
- Participated on the winning team of a company-wide hackathon
- Worked and hacked other types of technology including drones, websockets, estimote beacons, 3D printers, laser cutter, arduinos, LEDs and up and coming javascript libraries
Grellin Grade. Algorithm & full stack engineer.
Grellin Grade
Full stack engineer. Algorithm engineer.
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Grellin helps you eat healthier when you're on the run by taking all of the major fast food chains menu data and running it through the Grellin Grade algorithm to determine which menu items are the healthiest. Lenny Lesser, a doctor in San Francisco who created the concept, needed to finish the algorithm and build a beta website in a short time frame. I inherited the algorithm from a Stanford Computer Science PhD student, Leslie Wu, and completed it within 3 weeks. I then teamed up with designer Emma Lawler and built the web application in time for Dr. Lesser’s presentation at a conference. Grellin now handles over 40,000 data pieces that are searchable and categorizable; the average search time for an item is less than 200ms.
Getting things done
- Inherited and completed algorithm initiated by Stanford Computer Science PhD student
- Completed beta front and back end of website within 3 weeks
- Designed and implemented site's search/categorization parsing with more than 40,000 data pieces in less than 200ms
Al Gore's Climate Reality. Front end engineer.
Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Reality
Front end engineer.
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Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Reality project is an annual event that heightens awareness to the environmental impact humans have on the Earth. While working on this project at Made Movement, two engineers and I built out the front end for the “24 Hours of Reality” beginning, during, and after state in less than 2 weeks.
Getting things done
- Completed a before, middle and end state in real time over a period of 2 weeks
- Mastered SCSS and front end technologies
Thoughts.
GlutenFree.com. Full stack engineer.
GlutenFree.com
Full stack engineer.
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Udi’s, Made Movement’s client, wanted to create a site for GlutenFree.com. Through user experience research, Made identified that the increasing gluten-free population in America necessitated registered dietitians having a resource to organize and communicate consolidated information. GlutenFree.com serves this purpose.
At Made, I engineered the back end to GlutenFree.com and worked closely with the designer and front end engineer.
Getting things done
- Engineered back end
- Learned how to architect a database
Onoisms.
Onoisms
Ideator. Design. Engineer.
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I am inspired by Yoko Ono and believe her tweets are gems. For fun, I created a fortune cookie gif. When you click it, you will receive different Onoisms.
Inspiring people in creative spaces. Author. Interviewer. Photographer.
Inspiring People in Creative Spaces
Interviewer. Author. Photographer.
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While living in Boulder and San Francisco, I was interested in how other creatives were setting up their work spaces to best succeed. This blog is no longer being updated, but still contains interviews with interesting and inspiring artists, designers and engineers. Read the interviews here.
Getting things done
- Interviewed, transcribed and photographed 26+ creatives and their spaces
- 16,000+ unique views with no advertising