Summary
Arena Reed is a seasoned product and visual designer with 12 years of experience crafting interaction and UI solutions for startups and mission-driven organizations from Lumosity and Pivotal Labs to MobilizeAmerica. She runs her own consultancy, Arena Reed Design, specializing in product interaction, visual design, and translating strategy into usable interfaces. Her background blends biology and art, which informs a human-centered, research-driven approach to design and storytelling—evident in projects like Stacker and the open-source City72 Toolkit. Comfortable collaborating closely with engineers, she pairs prototyping and user research with pragmatic implementation, and she describes herself playfully as a designer, artist, and cat herder—hinting at strong team coordination and creative leadership.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), General Education, Associate of Arts (AA), General Education at Chabot College
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish