ABOUT

Amanda Jensen is a multidisciplinary creative leader who fuses research, design, and narrative strategy to build playful, future-facing experiences. Based in Los Angeles and experienced across tech, film, AI, education, and social impact, she catalyzes the journey from provocative ideas to tangible prototypes and audience-first products.

Amanda’s practice centers on empathetic fieldwork, co-design, and systems thinking where she surfaces cultural patterns and converts them into interaction models, story systems, and production pipelines that are both surprising and robust.

Her research-driven storytelling has premiered at SXSW and been distributed on major platforms including Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video. Amanda is especially interested in work that blends entertainment and utility: interactive narratives, playful learning systems, and AI-powered products that invite new forms of participation.

Media Design Practices, MFA
ArtCenter College of Design

Communication Design, BA
California State University, Chico


PRESS

PODCASTS

Unsolicited UX Podcast Empowering Users in the EdTech Space Amanda Jensen S2 Ep8

Unsolicited UX Podcast
Empowering Users in the EdTech Space
S2 Ep8

UXR Minds Podcast Workshop Series Amanda Jensen Design WITH not AT: The Power of Co-Design in UX & Product Research
The UXR Minds Podcast featuring Amanda Jensen S2 Ep25

UXR Minds Podcast
Storytelling & Your UXR Journey
S2 Ep25

WEBINARS & INTERVIEWS

People of Research Lightning Talks Series Webinar LinkedInfluencing: Professional Brand Strategies Panelist Amanda Jensen, People of Research Inspiring Researcher Interview Featuring Amanda Jensen Non-linear Career Paths Empower Divergent

Lightning Talks Series Webinar
LinkedInfluencing: Professional Brand Strategies

Inspiring Researcher Interview Feature
Non-linear Career Paths empower Divergent Thinking

GUEST LECTURE & SPEAKER

The UX Multiplier Effect: Infusing Design Thinking into Organizational DNA
Conference Talk Forthcoming

Claremont Graduate university Inclusive UX Design PSYCH 350US Design WITH not AT: The Power of Participatory Research & Co-Design Guest Lecturer Amanda Jensen
California State University, Chico Presentation & Practice MADT 439W Guest Lecturer Amanda Jensen Leveraging Personal Experience for Professional Branding

Presentation & Practice MADT 439W
Leveraging Personal Experience for Professional Branding

ArtCenter College of Design Brandmatters HSOC-212.01Cocacolonization: Brands as Modern Day Colonizers of Culture Guest Lecturer Amanda Jensen

Brandmatters HSOC-212.01
Cocacolonization: Brands as Modern Day Colonizers of Culture

Turtle Bay Museum Sustainability Day Community EventDesign Activism: Craft Beer Community Resilience in a Corporate Beer Market Guest Speaker Amanda Jensen

Sustainability Day Community Event
Design Activism: Craft Beer Community Resilience in a Corporate Beer Market


ADVISORY

2025

Guest Reviewer
Tyler School of Art & Architecture

Faculty Grant Judge
ArtCenter College of Design

2021 – 2019

Portfolio Judge
California State University, Chico

2017-2016

Symposium Moderator
CSU, Chico Future of Work

Guest Critic
ArtCenter College of Design


RECOGNITION

2025

ADPList Top 10 Female Mentor
Multimedia Design

2024 – 2023

ADPList Top 10% Mentor
Across all Global Mentors

LinkedIn Top Voice
UX Research


ADPList Top 1% Mentor
Product Research

Chapter Lead
Ladies that UX Los Angeles

ETS Spotlight Recognition Award
Innovation & Team Leadership

2017 – 2016

ArtCenter College of Design
Honors Distinction

MFA Thesis Scholarship
Work Breaking New Ground

2015

PPN Judges Choice Award
Publication Book Design & Binding

California State University, Chico
Cum Laude

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