Hello! I'm Haley. 
Most recently, I was a product designer at Civis Analytics in Chicago, IL. Previously, I worked on conversational interface design at a small health-tech startup, and before that studied Professional Writing and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout, I've freelanced and provided UX expertise for startups in analytics, financial technology, security & privacy, wealth management, healthcare, and education. 

I practice product design as a full-stack sport and consider myself a generalist both in the way I view the scope of my role and in how I define the process I undergo to solve the problems I'm presented with. Done well and for the right reasons, I tend to believe designing products should be pretty hard. What has always been easy and exciting for me is the chance I get to redefine my job, just a little bit, to meet the demands of each new challenge.
5 things I'm proud of that aren't on my resume

One: I've written public facing copy for every company I've ever worked for, including the movie theater where I slung candy & popcorn at 16
Two: In college, I co-founded a storytelling club and won awards for my research on taking narrative approaches to understanding undergraduate stress culture
Three: I ran varsity cross-country and track & field for 10 years and was captain of both my high school and college teams
Four: In my current role, I developed a series called the Care and Keeping of Product in which I give quarterly talks to my tech team on shared topics like mental models, status, and semantics
Five: I won an open call with Schmidt Futures for my idea on how to use behavioral design and computer science to improve the individual education program for students with disabilities 
Top Reads of 2020:

Race After Technology - Ruha Benjamin  
How to Do Nothing - Jenny Odell
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
Big Friendship - Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt