Darcy Branchini
Senior UX Designer at Stanford University
Village of Trumansburg, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDarcy Branchini is a senior UX designer with more than two decades of experience shaping user experiences and application design across education, libraries, and research institutions. She currently leads UX at Stanford University as a Senior UX Designer, following a pivotal tenure at Cornell University Library where she formed the library's first UX team and drove measurable digital improvements. Darcy blends qualitative and quantitative research with Agile product development to deliver value-driven designs that reduce friction and meet business goals. Her career spans roles from Manager of Digital User Experience at Cornell to Manager of Application Design at ETS, reflecting leadership across multi-disciplinary teams and complex content ecosystems. A lifelong learner, she earned an NN/g UX Management certificate in 2023 and holds an MPS from Cornell and a BS from SUNY Fredonia, underscoring a foundation in research-led, user-centered design. Outside work, Darcy's diverse background includes owning a yoga studio and serving in leadership roles in the U.S. Army, experiences that inform her collaborative approach and resilience.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at SUNY FredoniaMPS, MPS at Cornell University
Github Skills (50)
rails-engine9
solr9
discovery9
gis9
locomotivecms9
geotiff8
addon8
blacklight8
wfs8
geoserver8
geospatial8
nodejs7
osgeo7
open-science7
ruby7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NYCCSC/nyccsc-rails
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 75 PRs, 259 pushes in 1 year 4 months
code-development
cul-it/4H-career-ex
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 26 commits, 15 pushes in 1 month
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