Joan Wortman
User Experience at SimSpace
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoan Wortman is a seasoned UX designer and researcher with over two decades designing web and desktop experiences and more than a decade in senior product roles. She has led design systems, workshops, and customer advisory programs at organizations from MathWorks to Grafana Labs, and now shapes next‑gen products at SimSpace. Joan combines hands‑on UI architecture and front‑end development roots with strong leadership—mentoring teams, running Google Sprint–style workshops, and aligning stakeholders to get unstuck and reach consensus. As a co‑founder of DAYS she blended AI tooling with client-focused productization, showing she can pivot between enterprise design and entrepreneurial delivery. Based in Cambridge, MA, she pairs a BA in Computer Science with formal UX training and an unusual background in ceramics and visual design that informs her craft-focused approach to interaction detail. Colleagues know her for pragmatic design thinking that balances developer constraints with measurable usability gains.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard Extention SchoolCertificate in UX, Certificate in UX at Bentley UniversityBA, Computer Science, Cum Laude, BA, Computer Science, Cum Laude at University of Massachusetts BostonCeramic Arts and Ceramics, Graphic Design, Ceramic Arts and Ceramics, Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Github Skills (15)
monitoring10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
observability10
dashboard10
prometheus10
grafana10
go10
influxdb10
visualization10
business-intelligence10
visualize10
analytics10
mysql10
composable10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
squdgy/lineupbrag
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
grafana/grafana
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 10 months
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
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