Lindsay Ferris
Visiting Assistant Professor at Lindsay Ferris, LLC
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLindsay Ferris is a user research leader and Visiting Assistant Professor with 12 years of experience translating qualitative and mixed-methods insights into product and go-to-market strategy for consumer-facing and civic tech products. She has driven measurable outcomes—such as a 10% increase in template usage at Figma—by blending ethnography, usability testing, and survey work to inform product, growth, and editorial decisions. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and manager, she has built research practices from the ground up at startups and scaled teams while mentoring junior researchers and students. Lindsay’s background in internet studies (Oxford) and humanities (UVA), plus fieldwork with NGOs and government agencies, gives her a rare ability to surface human-centered strategy across commercial and mission-driven contexts.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Social Science in the Internet Social Sciences Internet Studies, Master of Social Science in the Internet Social Sciences Internet Studies at University of OxfordRussian Language, Russian Language at St. Petersburg State UniversityBachelors of Arts Philosophy Russian Language and Literature, Bachelors of Arts Philosophy Russian Language and Literature at University of Virginia
Russian
Github Skills (48)
digital-humanities10
linked-open-data10
open-data10
translation9
csv9
data-fabric8
ckan8
metadata8
data-mesh8
json8
structures7
validation7
census7
open-datasets7
data-presentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ljoelle/opendatahandbook
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
open-datahandbook
ljoelle/StopSecretContracts
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 day
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