About Me
I grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I found an early passion for building. A detour through Montreal showed me that what I wanted to build were digital things. I moved to the US for grad school, earning a PhD in human-computer interaction with research focused on women's health. From there I joined Cincinnati Children's Hospital as a UX designer in biomedical informatics, designing tools for patients, physicians, and scientists. Today I'm at Natera, the world's leading genetic testing company, where I lead a team of designers and researchers making the lab experience better. Through it all, women's health has remained my throughline: the space where I write, research, and invest.
Outside of work, you'll find me exploring the Bay Area and the world with my husband (by bike whenever possible), café hopping with a good book, or scouting the best tacos in the area.
- Drove design strategy and roadmap for genomic testing tools, leading a cross-disciplinary team to ship end-to-end product experiences.
- Research-informed decisions cut lab turnaround 15% and improved staff efficiency 50% across clinical workflows.
- Designed end-to-end clinical reporting interfaces for genetic counselors, lab directors, and operations teams across germline and somatic product lines.
- Led 0-to-1 product design for Natera's first patient portal; design improvements reduced support calls 30%.
- Built HIPAA-aware design frameworks balancing regulatory compliance with usability for safety-critical genomics workflows.
- Led UX research and interaction design across NIH- and PCORI-funded projects on cystic fibrosis and rare diseases — using ethnography, interviews, and quantitative analysis.
- Designed a DNA sequencing analysis platform translating complex genomic data workflows into clinical-grade interfaces in close partnership with wet lab and dry lab scientists.