Vanessa Colina
Principal at Twenty Percent Studio
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVanessa Colina is a Principal UX leader and product designer with nine years of experience building design teams and systems that align business goals with user needs. Based in Alexandria, VA, she currently leads UX Backstage at Twenty Percent Studio while curating TechStars’ global design digest and producing thought leadership through speaking, writing, and podcasting. Her background spans public-sector transformation at the Inter-American Development Bank—where she created the organization’s first design system—to advising health-tech product strategy for patient-facing iOS apps. Trained at MIT and HEC Paris, she blends human‑computer interaction rigor with entrepreneurial insight to help startups and institutions ship practical, market-responsive experiences. Colina is notable for translating complex organizational change into scalable design practices and for mentoring emerging product designers.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design Human Computer Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design Human Computer Interaction at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyEngineer’s Degree Information Engineer, Engineer’s Degree Information Engineer at Universidad Tecnológica del Centro (UNITEC)Bachelor in Fine Arts Graphic Design, Bachelor in Fine Arts Graphic Design at Design Institute of ValenciaMaster of Science - MS Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Master of Science - MS Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris
Spanish, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
vanessacolina/vanessacolina.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
My personal website.
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
reactone-pagerone-page-sitesonepagenextjs
vanessacolina/pmchecklist
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes, 5 branches in 5 days
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