I’m a designer energized by interdisciplinary collaboration, synergetic approaches, and a vision for expanding realms of possibility.
Hello —
I’m Madeline
It's great to meet you! I’m Madeline, a product designer & strategist finishing an MS in Design + Innovation at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My background spans information & tech ethics, business, and sustainability—which has given me a habit of looking for how the parts of a problem connect and how to make that make sense to the people working on it.
Growing up in Wisconsin, I saw firsthand how limited access shaped the opportunities of my friends and family. This experience gave me a strong sense of responsibility to design with intention—building inclusive, life-centered solutions rooted in resilience and a commitment to re-imagining what's possible.
Right now, that looks like prototyping new product experiences, teaching interaction design to undergraduates, curating a student design community I founded at UW–Madison, and thinking a lot about how trust gets built (and broken) in technology.
In time spent outside of doing work I’m obsessed with: I write, solo-travel, and am currently on a mission to get into improv and go low-tox. I spend a lot of time in entrepreneurial spaces, and am very passionate about rejection therapy—ask me about any of it!
Love my community!!
Having grown up on an isthmus, you’ll always find me by the water.
Copenhagen solo-trip on film! Next up: Dublin
All-time favorite weekend activity: the farmer’s market.
Most captivating painting I’ve seen in-person, is Carl Heinrich Bloch’s “In a Roman Osteria.”
Moments before bungee jumping. The terror hadn’t set in yet...
The best days always start with a quick sketch & poem.
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