Lydia Jessup
Senior, Product Designer, UX UI at Magic Leap
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLydia Jessup is a Senior Product Designer specializing in AR/VR and social virtual spaces, with nine years of interdisciplinary experience bridging research, teaching, and product design. She currently shapes platform experiences at Magic Leap and has a track record of shipping immersive UX—including nearly 40 AR pieces for The New York Times—while exploring how digital public spaces mediate civic and social life. Lydia combines hands-on prototyping (Unity, SparkAR, Adobe tools) with academic research, having taught at NYU’s ITP and developed browser-based 3D social projects like YORB that were published and showcased in festival and magazine venues. Her background in urban research and data-driven storytelling brings a unique policy-aware lens to product design, making her work informed by both human-centered research and real-world social systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Student, Interactive Technology and Design (Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Masters Student, Interactive Technology and Design (Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Relations, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Relations at Tufts UniversityUniversidad San Francisco de Quito
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
magicavoxel7
gaussian-mixture-models7
ima7
oculus-quest6
unity3d5
machine-learning4
foundation4
breakout4
deep-learning3
to-do3
react2
javascript2
classification2
keras1
tensorflow1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tabletop-live/xr-elections
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
lydiajessup/urban_os
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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