Vanessa Colina is a Principal UX leader with eight years of experience delivering human-centered experiences that align business needs with design outcomes. She is Principal at Twenty Percent Studio, and previously built and grew the design function at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led the technology design team and created the bank鈥檚 first design system. In addition to hands-on strategy, she contributes to the broader design community as a speaker, writer, podcaster, and UX Backstage host, and curates Techstars' Design digest to surface market-ready insights. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, she brings a multidisciplinary foundation鈥攆rom graphic design and information engineering to an MIT HCI focus and an MS in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. Her background spans creative leadership across startups and large institutions, enabling cross-functional collaboration and scalable, usable product outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineer鈥檚 Degree, Information Engineer, Engineer鈥檚 Degree, Information Engineer at Universidad Tecnol贸gica del Centro (UNITEC)
Bachelor in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Bachelor in Fine Arts, Graphic Design at Design Institute of Valencia
Master of Science - MS, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Master of Science - MS, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris
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Vanessa Colina - Principal at Twenty Percent Studio