Mary Watkins

Fresh UX
AI Enabled
Human Centered

A UX Manager that’s spent the last 20 years working in higher education. I build design teams, lead research, and create design systems for complex enterprise organizations. I’m motivated by using the power of human-centered design for the common good, making the complex simple, and the boring delightful.

I’m in the Los Angeles area, and open to UX Manager, UX Designer, freelance web design roles, and creative possibilities.

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Case Studies

Case Studies
Dealing with complexity: the Opus Project
Dealing with complexity: the Opus Project

Scoping, strategy, and stakeholder alignment on a system that grew bigger than anyone expected

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Writing

Writing
Buddhism and the Design Critique
Buddhism and the Design Critique

Why designers have to be egoless, and how I learned to do it most of the time.

UX Trends in Higher Education
UX Trends in Higher Education

AI, personalization, customization and more…

The power of prototypes
The power of prototypes

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a prototype worth?