Susan provides expert guidance on user research and facilitates usability testing for OIT and its many partners and customers across the campus. Her focus is on promoting best practices in UX to ensure the usability, usefulness, accessibility, and desirability of websites and applications produced and used by the University community.  Susan manages the Usability LAB in Green Hall where she leads a variety of UX engagements. Susan also hosts monthly "Design & Dessert" lunchtime sessions for the Princeton UX Design community, 

Susan brings with her deep experience in project leadership based on user-centered design. She led technology deployment projects at high-profile institutions including The New York Public Library and The American Museum of Natural History. It is through those iteratively designed systems where her expertise in design strategy, field research, usability testing methodology, and stakeholder management matured. Her recent focus is on service design where she developed an enlightening technique called expressive service blueprinting that highlights the consumer's emotive states throughout their service experience. 

Susan holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Rochester, and a Masters from Teachers College, Columbia University in Computers in Education, where she wrote a thesis on a braille display. She has taught at the New School, where she also earned a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language. Her work is featured in a number of book chapters on design and user experience mapping. She is author of multiple peer-reviewed publications and holds several patents. 

Since joining the User Experience Office, Susan earned and maintains her certificate as a Certified Professional of Accessibility Core Concepts (CPACC) from the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP).