Lead UX Designer • Individual Contributor

Design for trust

I have designed solutions that help over 8 million people achieve their financial goals with clarity and confidence, while allowing businesses to grow with integrity.

Get to know Mari

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I'm your design partner!

As the advocate for those who are not in the room, I collaborate with business tech and other designers to:

Dig deep into the problem your organization needs to solve
Detangle complexity
Reduce risks early on
Define a clear design vision and strategy
Build alignment
Uncover new business opportunities

I navigate ambiguity with curiosity and enthusiasm, and transform highly complex problems into intuitive, cohesive, accessible and scalable digital solutions.

Research and data are my allies, but I also tap into my intuition and keen ability to listen and observe to uncover hidden patterns.

How I work

Key competences

Design Strategy • Design Thinking • Product Strategy

Interaction Design • Workshop Facilitation • UX Research • Project Management • Business Analysis

By asking why, analyzing data, doing research and talking to people.

Uncover the root
cause

Collaborate and have a shared vision

By involving key partners early and often, fostering alignment.

Welcome mistakes and change direction

By accepting that some things don't work the way we expect and steering.

Embrace ambiguity and complexity

By looking for the hidden patterns and blind spots that are often missed.

View my work

How I design

But who's Mari, really?

An adventurous and curious human being, with a rainforest brain and a million things she's passionate about. Including learning about a million things.

EDUCATION

UX Management Certification
NNGroup

Interactive Media Management
Centennial College

Multimedia Communication
PUC-SP

EXPERIENCE

Royal Bank of Canada
2021-2025

Sun Life Financial
2021-2021

CIBC
2019-2021

Brim Financial
2017-2019

Accenture
2015-2016

IBM
2007-2013

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Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Written and narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer

I've been listening to

As a Potawatomi woman, Kimmerer learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.