Improve the usefulness and usability of projects.
Provide user experience expertise to projects in need.
Offer professional development opportunities to staff in UX-adjacent roles.
Grow UX community via skill and knowledge sharing, meetups, presentations and other events.
Staff
Rachel Hollowgrass is the lead for the UX Program and UX Lead for Student Information Systems / CalCentral. She founded the systemwide group UCUX. She has contributed to consumer applications at Apple, math curricula at Stanford, healthcare at Kaiser, and climate research at the Berkeley Lab. She has been at the Berkeley campus since 2008.
Adrienne Lee is a UX Designer for SIS and CalCentral at UC Berkeley. Previously, she has done graphic design work at UC Davis and UX Design at Kaiser Permanente. Adrienne holds a B.A. in Design and Psychology from UC Davis and a Master’s in Human Computer Interaction + Design from University of Washington.
Chara Bui is a UX Designer for Campus IT Experience. She delivers user-centered and research informed digital service designs to bolster the academic success of UC Berkeley’s students. She balances resource constraints, stakeholder priorities, and insights from user feedback to foster and deliver intuitive feature designs from ideation to implementation.
Student Interns
Cameron Kurtz is a UX intern on the UX team. He is in his second year in the graduate MIMS program.
Itzel Lopez is a UX intern on the
UX team. She is a rising 2nd year student in the graduate MIMS program.
Kristen Larson is a Project Manager and UX Operations intern on the UX team. She is an undergraduate student studying Digital Media and Data Science.
Priya Venkatesan is a UX intern on the UX team. She is an
undergraduate student studying
Cognitive Science and Data
Science.
Staff Areas of Responsibility
Rachel Hollowgrass, UX Lead
Rachel leads the UX program:
Collaborates with campus partners
Sets project scope and methodologies
Assigns resources
Partners with colleagues across campus and throughout higher education
Strategic management of projects with SIS Steering Committee
Adrienne Lee, UX Designer
Adrienne leads and organizes projects:
Conducts research and design efforts
Partners with staff in UX-adjacent roles
Mentors early career UX researchers and designers
Chara Bui, UX Designer
Chara leads and organizes projects:
Conducts research and design efforts
Partners with staff in UX-adjacent roles
Chara also has CITE responsibilities which include:
IT Experience Survey
Tech Experience Events
Productivity Suite Service Reviews
Every year, Berkeley UX hosts student interns, providing students with hands-on experience in user experience design, research, and student information system operations.