Lynn Stechschulte

Design Researcher & Strategist.

Inquisitive design strategist who champions user perspective. Draws on experience in user research and design thinking to reframe challenges and discover new opportunities. Expertly facilitates user interviews and multidisciplinary design sessions. Passionate about translating insights into thoughtful and delightful products. Known for creativity, communication, multidisciplinary collaboration and leadership. Professional Experience.

User Experience Research / Summer 2016

Google, YouTube Pilot Studio Intern, San Bruno, California

• Scoped, designed and executed user research for Pilot Studio, a highly experimental team.

• Built understanding of current user experience and informed future development of Motion Stills, an iOS application, through strategizing and executing in depth interviews. Within one month of study completion, team launched text update and Motion Stills was integrated into Google Photos.

• Prototyped new experience for YouTube creators and followers. Piloted new video diary approach for real time feedback and completed remote in depth interviews. Synthesized results into recommendations to inform future efforts.

Senior Researcher / November 2011 to September 2015 Procter & Gamble, Hair Care Research & Development, Cincinnati, Ohio

• Designed, moderated, and analyzed qualitative and quantitative consumer studies to build in depth consumer understanding and inform innovation strategy; strategically selected methodologies including in home and remote 1:1 interviews, rapid cycle prototype panels, focus groups, co-creation, ethnographic observation and in home product use with survey.

• Translated consumer insights into product and package design specifications and collaborated with multifunctional teams to bring desired consumer experience to life

• Recommended and led creation of branded scientific digital content, including assessing content gaps, developing demonstrations, and writing scripts and articles to highlight product benefits.

• Inventor on US patent 9,233,055: identified cause of product failure through ethnographic analysis and contributed consumer-centric design features to new technology

• Led Cornell Researcher Recruiting team, recognized as corporate gold standard

• Coached prototyping with passion for holistic product design and rapid cycle prototyping Researcher / August 2009 to November 2011

Procter & Gamble, Duracell Research & Development, Bethel, Connecticut

• Supervised prototyping operations and experiments, evaluated raw data, and formally presented results and recommendations in relation to battery innovations Analytical Chemistry Intern / Summer 2008

L'Oreal USA Research and Development, Clark, New Jersey

• Developed methods to investigate skin's absorption of potentially beneficial metals Contact.

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Education.

Stanford University / June 2017

Graduate Design Program, Palo Alto, California

Master of Science in Engineering, GPA 4.0

Graduate School of Business, Ignite Graduate

• Course Assistant: Design & Business

Factors, Advanced Product Design

Implementation, Product Design Methods,

Visual Thinking

Cornell University / May 2009

College of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, New York

Bachelor of Arts, GPA 3.46

Et cetera.

• As a d.school Design Leader, I led a team

of City of San Jose employees through a

10 week intensive iterative design process

including innovation workshops, user

intercepts, analogous explorations,

ideation, and in context prototyping.

Resulted in delightful new experiences for

Happy Hollow Park and Zoo visitors, and

focused the park’s innovation strategy.

• My design team’s prototype was so well

received by our users we published it:

goodnightnews.weebly.com

• I freelanced with VersaMe to strategize

communications and design packaging for

Starling.

• My Pantene prototype became an official

YouTube video: youtu.be/qKVc4aSNTTs

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