Hello!

I'm Abby Golfo, a research-focused designer building impactful products and services.

Work Experience

M&T Bank
User Experience Designer · 2018 — Present
Cortina Productions
Interactive Design Intern · 2017

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Digital Media · 2018
State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo
Bachelor of Arts in Communication · 2016;
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology · 2016

Projects

We Give Care
Contributor · 2019 — Present
wegive.care
We Give Care is a newsletter and online community with a mission to celebrate and support caregivers by sharing stories and resources.

Speaking & Workshops

America on Tech UX Design Program
Session Speaker on Usability Testing; Mentor · 2019, 2020
For the past two years, I've worked with amazing high school students during America on Tech's six-week long immersive program in User Experience Design. Formerly New York on Tech (NYOT)
RIT's Thought At Work
Workshop Co-Facilitator · 2019
Along with Kirsten Lindquist-Campana and Ryan Duquette, I co-facilitated "Encouraging Diverse Perspectives in Group Brainstorming" at RIT's Thought At Work— a design conference made for students by students.
About
My goal is to positively impact people’s lives by meeting people where they are.

I'm a research-focused designer dedicated to building impactful (mostly digital) products and services. I'm interested in understanding how people move through their worlds and I love working within multidisciplinary teams so we can ask, learn, and iterate together.

I'm a UX Designer at M&T Bank focusing on service design and research. I have a master’s degree in Digital Media from Georgia Tech and bachelor’s degrees in Communication and Sociology from SUNY Geneseo.

In addition to design, I like to bike, collect stickers, and film & edit.

My pronouns are she/her.

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Currently—
🏗 Making: An in-home studio; updates to this site
📚 Reading: A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell; An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
📺 Watching: Killing Eve s3

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Learn more about—
My design journey through stickers I've collected (Service Design Network Atlanta Pecha Kucha, December 2020)

My master's project (Georgia Tech Digital Media, 2018)‍
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Contact me—

abbygolfo [at] gmail.com
twitter.com/abbygolfolinkedin.com/in/abbygolfo

I'm in the process of moving case studies to this site. For a PDF version of my portfolio, please contact me.