Rachel Arredondo
Designer · Researcher · Strategist
About
I visualize complex systems to ready them for transformation. Across a decade of experience designing and shipping complex products and services across AI, healthcare, medtech, robotics, and scientific instrumentation, my expertise is defining how emerging technology can fit naturally into people's lives, and shift the future.
San Francisco, CA · rachelarre@gmail.com · linkedin.com/rachelarre
Participatory Design · Speculative Futures · Co-creation · 0→1 Product Development
Experience
2026 — Now
Co-Founder
Futurekind, San Francisco, CA
An innovation strategy & design consultancy helping organizations build for what's next.
2024 — 2026
Senior Product Designer
Headspace, San Francisco, CA
Reimagining the care experience for patients and providers.
2022 — 2024
Senior Experience Designer
Whipsaw, San Francisco, CA
Designer working across digital × physical products with a participatory design approach.
2021
Design Researcher
Morphing Matter Lab, CMU HCII, Pittsburgh, PA
Design researcher working on restoring seagrass meadow ecosystems.
2018 — 2021
UX & Visual Designer
Calendly, Atlanta, GA
Early design hire working across the marketing website and core product.
Education
2020 — 2021
Master of Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Writing
2022
Essay
Publications
2022
Creativity & Cognition, Pictorial, Venice, Italy
2021
CHI, Late-Breaking Work
2021
IASDR, Late-Breaking Work
Speaking
2026
Future London Academy
2025
Whipsaw, San Francisco, CA
2022
Evoking the World You Want to Build: Engaging People in Future Visions
Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit, Pittsburgh, PA
2021
Morphing Matter Lab, Pittsburgh, PA
2021
RSD10, TU Delft, Netherlands
2020
Ceramics x Product: Design Through Iteration
AMUX (UX Meetup), Atlanta, GA