Sam Daitzman Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Senior Product Designer on a variety of mobile and web projects transforming digital teaching/learning experiences. Core team member building Schema Education, a product design/strategy agency in the EdTech space.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Primary designer for in-depth design research and redesign of experimental scientific computing interface for human/machine-learning interaction in chemical optimization tasks.
• Designed and ran 14 IRB-cleared user research testing sessions to identify key issues with users’ understanding of product interface. Collected, coded and analyzed actionable interaction data.
• Created and maintained project management workspace for research team using Notion.
• Developed ~10 looks-like and works-like redesigns using Figma, Framer, Sketch, paper prototyping, and HTML/CSS/JS.
• After user-tests, created multiple redesigned interface options which showed significant improvements to user understanding and performance in additional user interviews.
• Shared findings in detailed report and presentation highlighting 3 key opportunities to substantially improve product’s interface design to aid user comprehension and engagement.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Created and implemented interactive calculus demonstration with Professor Kelsey Houston-Edwards. Sole front-end interface developer responsible for interactive educational content.
• Developed interactive game-like interface for delivering fun, intuitive calculus content.
• Collaborated with comic artist to design digital comic about calculus using educational content design principles.
• Used modern web stack including HTML/SCSS/JS with a Parcel build system and Netlify deployment.

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-designed teaching curriculum on engineering ethics, social implications of tech, and context for Machine Learning, Quantitative Engineering Analysis, Software Design and other classes.
• Created and maintained an integrated project management environment, including shared task tracking.
• Identified key opportunities to integrate context, ethics and public good into technical curriculum.
• Used human-centered research approach to make engineering classes more equitable and inclusive based on detailed feedback with stakeholders including engineering faculty, students, and staff.
• Developed and designed educational materials using LaTeX, Notion, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-created Digital Citizenship curriculum and contributed to novel research on machine learning, education, and artificial intelligence explainability in the Youth and Media Lab and the Ethics and Governance of AI.
• Created Digital Citizenship curriculum modules and contributed to research on machine learning, AI explainability, digital citizenship, and related subjects.
• Developed a new design system using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Created an Adobe extension written in JavaScript/ExtendScript to automatically generate unique, visually compelling designs for the lab.
• Modified WordPress research group website to match new visual design system.
• Assisted in documenting and synthesizing AI Explainability working group meetings for use in research paper.

Boston, Massachusetts

CodeDay Boston Organizer and StudentRND Evangelist. 71% of CodeDay students with no prior experience still coding three months after our events.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Lasercutting, 3D printing, fabrication, electrical and software engineering instructor and facilitator. Supported student teams in researching, designing, problem-solving and presentation of innovative summer projects. My students’ work was featured in Google’s Science Fair video and on regional and national press.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering: Human-Centered Product Design Concentration, 3.98/4

Activities and Societies: Grand Challenge Scholar. Awarded 4-year, 50% tuition merit scholarship. Co-founded PInT public interest tech.

Design And Others

Project-based innovation and design school in Cambridge.

Computer Science

Relevant Courses: Expository Writing; Fiction Writing; Physics (Mechanics and E&M); Statistics/R.