Mari Ettlinger has over 15 years experience in Design Thinking, Product Design, UX/UI, and Strategy. She is a problem solver and a user-advocate who has worked with startups and corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, Boston, New York, Beirut, and Australia, most recently as a founding in designer for Noded AI, a notetaking app that integrates with other applications and tags people, companies, dates and topics. In addition to running her own design consultancy, she has worked as a Product Design Director for Carecar, Product Design Manager for RelayHealth, UX/UI Director for Marqeta, a Sr Lead UX Designer for Adobe, a Lead Visual Designer for Symantec and a Design Director for Walmart.com. She has led design teams with up to 12 direct reports and has mentored hundreds of students during her five year tenure as a Design Instructor at UC Berkeley and at Merit. Mari holds a Bachelor degree in Art and Design from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and pursued graduate studies at Pratt Institute in New York. She grew up in Mill Valley, CA and now lives in the East Bay with her 2 daughters, 2 dogs and 1/4 acre of gardens. Mari partakes in pub night trivia, daily swimming and knitting $600 sweaters.