Summary
Anna France is a Senior User Experience Designer with 12+ years crafting enterprise SaaS and IIoT experiences, currently designing industrial applications after leading UX teams at Infosys and creative projects at WONGDOODY. She blends deep UX practice with hands-on digital fabrication expertise—authoring and editing multiple Maker Media books and directing high-profile 3D printer testing events. As a former Fab Academy dean and instructor, she builds curricula and mentors designers in electronics, CNC, and rapid prototyping, bringing pedagogy into product design. Comfortable from strategy to high-fidelity execution, she has led research, journey mapping, and studio pods for large-scale enterprise and consumer projects. Anna favors computer-controlled, parametric, and open systems and pursues cutting-edge interests in 3D scanned art, biofabrication, and programmable materials. Based in Providence, she pairs a human-centered information‑architecture background with tangible fabrication skills that help teams bridge digital interfaces and physical production.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Digital Fabrication (Fab Academy), Digital Fabrication / Electronics Design, Diploma in Digital Fabrication (Fab Academy), Digital Fabrication / Electronics Design at Academany - The Academy of (almost) Anything
Master's degree, Information Science: Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, Master's degree, Information Science: Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture at Indiana University Bloomington
Strategic Design Course (at RISD Center For Complexity), Strategic Design Course (at RISD Center For Complexity) at Rhode Island School of Design
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Sociology / Anthropology, Bachelor's degree, Economics, Sociology / Anthropology at Earlham College