Hello! I'm Shannon, and I contain multitudes.
Let’s start with the basics. I'm a creative leader obsessed with user-centered design and product strategy. Most recently, I headed up the Experience Design team at VanMoof. Now I’m spending my days working at Atelier Awful, either painting or making faces out of clay. I also wrote The Practical Guide to Experience Design.
A Few Highlights
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Wrapped up my tenure at VanMoof; now carefully considering my next steps.
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Putting all of my energy into Atelier Awful – a studio and event space in Amsterdam Oost.
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Designed, glued, painted, and patterned 30 Mardi Gras masks for Krewe of Freret.
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Took up ceramics and quickly became obsessed with clay faces and tableware.
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Finished Coming to our Senses, a series of five small paintings exploring how we grow closer to the digital realm while increasingly distant from the real world.
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Spoke at Shift Mobility about how Design is Shaping the Future of Mobility and on the importance of creating a diverse and inclusive team in Elle is Driving a New Perspective.
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Started as Head of Experience at VanMoof, where I would build a team, develop a strategy, and launch multiple products.
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Published my book, The Practical Guide to Experience Design.
Art
Coming to Our Senses
Women wait in their windows, looking out on nothing. Each tries desperately to recreate a specific sensation, something that once was, but now that has vanished in all but a synthesized form.
Design
The Practical Guide to Experience Design
After five years of running a boutique UX consultancy, I gathered our many learnings into a practical guidebook of processes, complete with high-fidelity examples.
Art
Future Perfect
In the past we had gods; now we have technology. Future Perfect combines renaissance stories and compositions with contemporary themes and technology.
Design
I'm obsessed with connected products, especially bikes.
I spent the past three years establishing a team, a practice, and an experience strategy within e-bike startup VanMoof.
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