Sarita Schaffer (Design '15 alumni) currently works as a Senior UX Designer at Amazon in their Elexa enabled devices division. Recently, she was featured on the Inside Amazon series. They explore her story as the founder and director of Viva Farms to her current role as a UX designer. This story highlights the interdisciplinary nature of design and how her experience as a social entrepreneur informed Sarita's understanding of meaningful user experiences. Her experiences also showcase the diverse backgrounds of SCCA students and how their design education can launch them to a meaningful career in design.
Check out her Inside Amazon full video interview.
Alumni Profile
I’m Martin, and I’m a type designer. Right now, I’m getting a master’s degree at a small art school in France doing type design. I’m really enjoying the school I’m at. I like my work, I like my teachers, I like my colleagues, I like living in France. So I decided to stay for another year. But I’ll be back in the U.S next year.
Alumni Profile
I wrote a lot of comic books. I was very involved with the Seattle comic scene. And I think that also was something, and I know a lot of cartoonists that went through the program and that really parlayed well with learning even UX like storyboarding and that type of thing, but also it's really useful to be able to visually display something. And so using those skills, using something I knew how to do.
Alumni Profile
Megan is a 2007 Creative Academy graduate who runs her own graphic design business with her sister in Bellingham, Washington