Hi I’m Stella!

I’m a Product Designer with a strong product mindset and experience as a Product Manager at Google.

With a BSc in Computer Science and a MSc in Human Computer Interaction, I combine my passion for understanding people and designing tech to make delightful user experiences.

Selected Works

Redesigning INSPIRE

How I redesigned the first website in North America

Role: Lead Interaction designer, Product Manager

Team: CERN, Switzerland

Achievements:

  • Launched the redesign of the scientific information platform INSPIRE used by particle physicists around the world. Currently live under inspirehep.net.

  • Presented user-centric approach in CHEP conference (paper).

Reimagining Touchscreen Interactions: Introduction of a novel technique and evaluation

What’s the best way to send information between touchscreen devices? You guessed it, the answer is: it depends!

Role: Lead Interaction designer and developer

Team: CEA, France

Achievements:

  • Designed and developed the novel interaction technique ‘Pinch-To-Move’ and evaluated 4 interaction techniques (swipe, doubletap, throw, Pinch-To-Move) between a tablet and an interactive table.

Planning and facilitating a design sprint

How Might We design an efficient scheduling system for a moving company?

Role: Design Sprint facilitator

Achievements:

  • Planned a 3-day sprint and tested the prototype with users.

Redesigning back office librarian tools

How I redesigned editing tools for librarians in US, China and EMEA

Role: Product designer and Product Manager

Team: CERN, Switzerland

Achievements:

  • Reduced costs by 60% by redesigning the UI and introducing automation.

  • The new user-friendly redesigned back office tools attracted 3 new partner institutions that signed collaboration agreements with CERN.