HARRIET

Projects in tech, design, strategy, and humanities.

Projects in tech, design, strategy, and humanities.

PRODUCT DESIGN AND STRATEGY- 2025-2026

Element Water Relaunch

Most filtration companies sell a spec sheet and let the fear do the rest. Element was rebuilt from the bottom up, so the question was never how to market water. It was what a water company should be made of.

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PRODUCT DESIGN AND STRATEGY- 2025-2026

Element Water Relaunch

Most filtration companies sell a spec sheet and let the fear do the rest. Element was rebuilt from the bottom up, so the question was never how to market water. It was what a water company should be made of.

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Multidisciplinary

Product design, 3D asset design, strategy and business operations, finance, branding

0->1

Relaunch & Rebrand

This existing water purification tech company needed to be relaunched with new products, new branding, a new website, new designs, and new ideas. We broke it down to the ground, then built it back up.

PRODUCT DESIGNER & RESEARCHER - AXLAB, 2024–25

Magneto-haptic prototypes

Magnets, vibrations, and 3D printed channels producing real haptic feedback with no firmware. I modelled mechanisms and built motion-tracking software that made twenty iterations possible.

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PRODUCT DESIGNER & RESEARCHER - AXLAB, 2024–25

Magneto-haptic prototypes

Magnets, vibrations, and 3D printed channels producing real haptic feedback with no firmware. I modelled mechanisms and built motion-tracking software that made twenty iterations possible.

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20+

Prototype iterations in under 8 months

DESIGN METHODOLOGY

Bottom-Up Methodology

Axlab uses a bottom-up methodology. We explore interactions, ways of knowing, and mechanisms to better understand how things could work, before attaching a use-case.

CREATIVE COMPUTING CAPSTONE - UCHICAGO, 2025

Body of Play

an interactive experience that interrogates the ease with which we explore, manipulate, and impose expectations on the female body; employing a tactile, ritualistic interaction design

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CREATIVE COMPUTING CAPSTONE - UCHICAGO, 2025

Body of Play

an interactive experience that interrogates the ease with which we explore, manipulate, and impose expectations on the female body; employing a tactile, ritualistic interaction design

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Tools & Software

Unity3D, C#, Blender, ZBrush

CRITICAL DESIGN

Investigating acts of play

BoP renders the otherwise mundane act of play into something uncomfortable, but also intimate. It explores the cultural and psychological mechanisms that normalize bodily fragmentation and reconstruction.

CRITICAL DESIGN

Investigating acts of play

BoP renders the otherwise mundane act of play into something uncomfortable, but also intimate. It explores the cultural and psychological mechanisms that normalize bodily fragmentation and reconstruction.

SOFTWARE AND OPERATIONS ENGINEER - 2024

Consulate of Colombia AI

The Colombian Consulate in Chicago faced several operational bottlenecks including high call volumes, repetitive questions, and frequent errors in bookings and document preparations. We developed an AI-powered chatbot to provide immediate, 24/7 assistance to users.

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SOFTWARE AND OPERATIONS ENGINEER - 2024

Consulate of Colombia AI

The Colombian Consulate in Chicago faced several operational bottlenecks including high call volumes, repetitive questions, and frequent errors in bookings and document preparations. We developed an AI-powered chatbot to provide immediate, 24/7 assistance to users.

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20,000+

Users served annually

TOOLS

Python, Twilio API, OpenAI API

Conceptualized, strategized, then built the back end and integrated Whatsapp front-end