Amanda Jensen is senior UXR with a decade of multidisciplinary experience in cross-cultural ethnography, speculative design, user research, design strategy, and humanitarianism. 🦄
PRESENT
💪 Advocating user-centricity, leading cross-functional collaboration, driving innovation through divergent thinking and owning end-to-end research across teams.
🎨 Specializing in participatory design, wizard of oz methods, and creative solutioning that fosters an inclusive user experience throughout the product lifecycle.
🚀 Supporting UX professionals to discover their niche, reimagine portfolios and catalyze into industries they aspire to be in and doing what they love.
PAST
👩🏫 Taught and empowered UXD & UXR university students to realize their full creative potential.
🎬 Worked on international and domestic film sets as documentary researcher.
🧩 Strategized innovative company culture business initiatives with an employee-first mindset.
🐾 Orchestrated and launched my dog into instagram stardom as a devout momager.
🗺️ Lived, designed and researched in Uganda to develop children’s curriculum in partnership with UNICEF.
2024 & 2023 LinkedIn Top UX Research Voice
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ADPList Top 1% Mentor in Research
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ADPList Top 50 Female Mentor in Multimedia Design
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Chapter Co-Lead, Ladies that UX Los Angeles
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2024 & 2023 LinkedIn Top UX Research Voice 〰️ ADPList Top 1% Mentor in Research 〰️ ADPList Top 50 Female Mentor in Multimedia Design 〰️ Chapter Co-Lead, Ladies that UX Los Angeles 〰️
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EDUCATION
Media Design Practices, MFA
ArtCenter College of Design
Communication Design, BA
California State University, Chico
Studio Art, AA
Shasta College