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Recognition

Patents, awards, and publicly anchored work. A running record, not a highlight reel.

Awards

2024 iF Gold Award. Member of the Lucid design team recognized for Gravity's multimodal interaction system. Contributed research-led design direction and validation across the program.

2025 Lucid Extra Mile Award. Company-wide recognition received at the November 2025 town hall, cited specifically for the AI voice prototyping platform.

Top-tier performance rating at Lucid Motors. Recognized at the company's highest performance tier in 2023 and 2025.

Publicly-anchored work

Work I've contributed to that has been disclosed publicly.

Lucid Intelligence / AI Experience platform. Contributed to the strategy publicly announced at Lucid Investor Day 2026 (Derek Jenkins, SVP Design & Brand, slides ~57–60). See the case study for context.

Patents

Co-inventor, multimodal interaction system patent for Lucid Gravity. Patent grant expected soon. Filed for the multimodal interaction system underlying Gravity's UX, which received the 2024 iF Gold Award.

Co-inventor, patent pending related to in-cabin climate interaction. Filed for the interaction design underlying a climate control system at Lucid Motors.

Mentorship

Mentor at Lucid Motors. Currently mentoring one Senior UX Researcher and two Senior UX Designers across research framing, conversational UX, AI design strategy, and insight-to-recommendation development.

Talks and press

Speaker, Accelerant Research Virtual Insights Conference (ARVIC), November 2024. I gave a talk, "The UX Generalist Advantage: Powered By AI", at this virtual conference for research and insights professionals.

Imagine Mobility Ideathon, University of Washington (2018). Member of the first-place team, for a concept of school-based park-and-ride mobility hubs. Covered by the Seattle Times and Cascade PBS.

Earlier work

Writer, Durga (2015). Premiered at the Busan International Film Festival.