👩🏻‍💻 Product Designer, Coach, and Builder • 🏢 Design Lead @ Willful

[💌 Email](mailto:[email protected]?subject=Hey) • 📄 Resume • 🔗 Linktree

I'm a strategic product designer with 10+ years of experience in complex but "unsexy" challenges that others overlook—disaster prevention, end-of-life planning, and healthcare.

My strength lies in balancing high-level strategic vision with hands-on execution. I see both the forest and the trees, and I help organizations transform difficult problems into elegant, functional solutions that deliver measurable results for both users and businesses.

Featured projects

Case Studies

Experience

💼 Currently, I am…

• Heading design at Willful as Senior Product Designer (2022- now)
• Supporting Canadians through digital estate planning to provide confidence and peace of mind about end-of-life

⏳ Before this, I was...

• Senior Product Designer at Tyltgo (2021-2022)
• Product Designer at Rewind (2019-2021)
• UI/UX Designer, Design Ops at Qlik (2017-2019)
• UI/UX Designer, Co-op at CIBC, Accedo.tv, Guarana Technologies, Givery (2014-2016)

🎓 Education & development

• Women and Color Speaker Bootcamp (2020)
• d.MBA (2020)
• University of Waterloo (2017)

🎲 Professional community

• Design coach at MentorCruise
• Top 100 Mentor at ADPList with 1,000+ mentor minutes across 7 countries
• Volunteer at ClimateAction.tech
• Organizer and facilitator at UX Hangouts (on hiatus)
• Speaker: "Quiet Voices" at Women and Color Mini-Conference (2020) View presentation (password: quiet)

Resources for my fellow designers 💛

I've created these resources to share with the design community. This list will likely grow slowly over time; no promises, though.

Mary’s guide to user interviews

A Designer's Code of Ethics (free downloadable poster)

Mary’s UX book recommendations (upcoming curated list)