Summary
Pam Griffith is a UX designer with 11 years of experience blending human-computer interaction research and hands-on web development to solve real user problems. Based in Pittsburgh, she currently shapes user experiences at UPMC Health Plan, drawing on a strong foundation from MS HCI at Georgia Tech and a BS in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego. She excels at user interviews, observational research, qualitative analysis, and rapid prototyping, then translates insights into practical redesigns using front-end skills like JavaScript, CSS, XML, and Photoshop. Her background includes usability-focused engineering roles at SRI International and early web development across startups, giving her fluency in both research and implementation. Notably, she enjoys uncovering underlying patterns in user behavior and turning those hidden insights into creative design options. Colleagues rely on her to bridge technical constraints and human needs, producing designs that are both usable and technically feasible.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
MS, Human Computer Interaction, MS, Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of Technology