Hi, I’m Isa — a designer and strategist exploring how technology, emotion, and environment come together to shape meaningful experiences.
I help teams make sense of ambiguity and turn insight into meaningful strategy — from biometric sensing and spatial UX to GenAI. My work always beginning with a sharp understanding of why.
> Featured Work

Sentiment Mapper
Product Dev
A lightweight tool for exploring how visual elements elicit emotions. Sentiment Mapper allows users to gather location-based feedback on 2d visualizations and provides them with real-time insight.

Quantifying Experience Using Biometrics
Experience Research
How can we move beyond surveys to capture real-time experience? An innovative hybrid user research method to quantify passenger experience through biometric wearables.︎
> Coming Soon:
1. On Mobility: Speculations From The Physical, Sensory, and Digital Realms (Publication)
2. Graduate School Admissions Software (UX)
3. Project SYNTHIA (Emergent Design Methodology)
> All Work
PAX Experience
CX Strategy
Experience Design
How do we design delight into spaces built for efficiency? The passenger experience improvement project at Boston Logan Airport Terminal C is intended to enhance how passengers navigate and use of space.

Emotion Tracker
Product Dev
How can emotion become visible, measurable, and actionable? Ripple is an Emotion Tracker designed to help individuals track and understand their emotional fluctuations.

Spatial Experience Dashboard
Product Design
Can we make the invisible dynamics of space and feeling visible? The Dashboard is a multi-modal spatial ethnography tool for making sense of space through movement, mood, and sensor feedback.

Mental Breadcrumbs
Experience Research
Why are some built environments easier to navigate than others? Mental Breadcrumbs is an investigation into how one’s emotions, mental state, and spatial environment interact. ︎

www.invivia.com
UX Design
Webdev
I redesigned and rebuilt INVIVIA’s website through comprehensive rebranding: clarifying services, improving client engagement, and revamping the signature aesthetic.

Understanding Burnout
UX Research
UX Design
Can design help high performers recover joy and purpose? I conducted a comprehensive UX Research for an online tool targeting perfectionist burnout by fostering creative habits and strengthing mental well-being.
SolarTech
Product Strategy
Co-created Raydiant Solar Tech, a product that provides beautiful, clean, and powerful residential solar solutions.
When Charlotte Slipped
World Building
Organized and facilitated When Charlotte Slipped - an international collaborative reverse world-building exercise.

Providing PreSense
Product Design
Inclusive micro-communication tool designed to alleviate anxiety surrounding family separation.

Responsive Architecture
Spatial Research
Experience Design
Speculation on how future architecture can respond to social interactions through ML to help companies grow seamlessly.

Comprehensive Rebranding
CX Design + Research
A comprehensive approach to rebranding the website for a design consulting firm, clarifying services, improving client engagement, and revamping the signature brand aesthetic.

Simulating Responsiveness
Interaction Research
In progress: Further investigation into how human activity can transform spatial design. Using Multi-Agent simulation to understand architectural responsiveness.

www.airtraveldesign.guide
UX Design
Webdev
An online guidebook on the design of artifacts, spaces, and systems that impact the passenger experience of air travel.

On Flying
Design
On Flying: Toolkit for Understanding Passenger Experience is a book for all air travel enthusiasts, designers, and researchers.

Designing for Inclusion in VR
UX Research
In progress: Why are certain VR environments more inclusive than others? What are the effects of spatial design on spatial behavior and nonverbal communication (NVC)?
Responsive Environments
Tech Research
Case studies and epilogue for the Harvard Publication: An Interdisciplinary Manifesto on Design, Technology, and the Human Experience
www.whencharlotteslipped.com
UX Design
Web-dev
Designed and built the website for a speculative world-building project.

Harvard Scholar at Risk Rebranding
Rebranding
Led the rebranding efforts for Harvard University’s Scholars at Risk program.

Venice Biennale Exhibition
Design
Designed the 2021 Venice Biennale Exhibition at the Space Time Existence Exhibit.