Amy Bickerton
Senior Adjunct, Interaction Design at California College of the Arts
Ukiah, California, United States
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Top SchoolAmy Bickerton is a seasoned interaction designer, researcher, and educator with 15+ years of practice and over five years of people management experience, currently teaching core Interaction Design courses at California College of the Arts. She blends hands-on mixed-methods research and service design with product leadership from roles at Uber and Dropbox, where her teams improved safety, privacy, and accessibility across large consumer platforms. Her work spans startups, agencies, and enterprise products—from passenger and driver apps to integrations with e-readers—demonstrating a knack for translating qualitative insights into pragmatic design solutions. Amy also brings global teaching experience, having taught at Carnegie Mellon and CMU-Q, and a creative foundation with an MDes from Carnegie Mellon and a BA in Creative Writing. Colleagues rely on her to bridge research, content, and cross-functional execution, and she has a quiet specialty in designing for older adults and veteran communities that shaped impactful social-health initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MDes, Communication Planning and Information Design, MDes, Communication Planning and Information Design at Carnegie Mellon University
English
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Github Skills (5)
jakartaee6
error-handling6
eclipse6
jms6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
amybickerton/doubleunion-dot-org
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
The external website for Double Union
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
readthedocsmanualdouble
doubleunion/doubleunion-dot-org
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
The external website for Double Union
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 5 months
double
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