About: Jenna is a co-founder of Fit Associates, LLC.
Fit is a design research and consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, which works with its clients' teams and managers to make products and processes better. This means we do contextual research, design facilitation, process coaching, interaction and communication design, and a range of customized services that arise through long-term relationships with teams. Now in its fourth year, Fit's clients include Microsoft, Whirlpool, Comcast, SAP, Seagate, Respironics and Nissan.
She is an experienced researcher and interaction designer. For the past three years, Fit has given her the opportunity to act as lead researcher, project manager and client team communicator and facilitator.
Before Fit, as a UI Design Lead for Siemens Medical Solutions, she explored the lives, activities, and communication patterns among hospital employees.
As an interaction designer at MAYA Viz (now GDViz), Jenna worked on collaborative visual software for the military. She conducted user research on military bases and military exercises, to determine the needs of soldiers in the field. She then created visual and interaction designs based on those insights, for manipulating large data sets, tracking movements of people and equipment and collaborating across distances in support of critical decision-making.
Jenna is
experienced in team process development, group facilitation, user research, usability evaluation, concept development and evaluation, interaction and interface design, and rapid prototyping.
She received her Master's in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.
