Currently
VP, User Experience @ Follett Higher Education
Ex-Founder @ Stagger
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Austin, TX
With over 20 years of product design leadership, I’ve dedicated my career to creating intentional, impactful user experiences. As the VP of UX at Follett Higher Education, I’ve built the UX practice from the ground up, steering the design of tools that empower educators and students alike.
Before Follett, I consulted with brands across industries, helping them define strategy and execute on product design. My approach is rooted in blending big-picture thinking with hands-on execution—an ethos that carried me into entrepreneurship.
From 2020 to 2023, I founded Stagger, a SaaS platform that raised $1.3M in VC funding and grew from 0 to 1, enabling SMBs to craft compelling creative for social media and the web.My passion lies at the intersection of design, technology, and storytelling—where human needs meet innovative solutions.
When I asked co-workers and clients what it was like to work with me, here's what they said:
"Chrissy led a key, foundational research study for my org that builds internal productivity products at Meta. It was the largest scale study we’d ever undertaken, and resulted in significant cross-org impact. Chrissy is a confident leader; able to quickly read a room (even a virtual one), engage stakeholders at every level, and autonomously design and execute on complex, multi-phase research. The results of the research drove the direction of a re-org, were used in a deck to inform Mark Zuckerberg about the state of work at Meta, informed multiple product team roadmaps for 2023 and features that were built in 2022."
"I highly recommend Chrissy. She understood our users' needs on a deep emotional level, and translated the "why" into an actionable "what" with both creativity and systems thinking. She's an exceptional designer who places the user at the heart of the problem, and can gracefully navigate complexity at an enterprise level. Bonus: Chrissy is an absolute joy to work with. I look forward to working with her again in the future!"
"Chrissy is a strong UX designer, with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, who can tackle complicated UX problems with ease, provide confident and clear leadership, and productively and thoughtfully interface with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to move projects forward. Joining the Streamers & Creators team at Logitech, Chrissy hit the ground running, picking up a complex, technically challenging, first-of-its-kind product and making quick progress on the UX design, understanding the strategic business underpinnings of the project, directing user research, and ensuring stakeholder buy-in along the way."
