We help companies make their products easy to use. Since 2001, our designers and researchers have been creating intuitive, compelling, interactive experiences for technology companies all over the world.
How do we ensure success? We care deeply about two kinds of customers: ours and yours. Consequently, we've developed a proprietary user-centered design process that allows us to understand the users' needs and then create interactive prototypes of design solutions that address them.
Our consulting projects have resulted in successful new product launches, redesigns, and user research projects for clients in a variety of industries and services. We've improved consumer facing websites and desktop applications, mobile electronics, enterprise applications, and intranets.
Explore our portfolio to see what we've done for others, and then contact us to discuss what we can do for you.
Principal
Julie helps companies drive product innovation. As a Principal and Founder of Sliced Bread Design, Julie leads new business development and helps companies define a strategy to fulfill the vision for their product. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies and two-person startups in a wide variety of fields, including consumer electronics, social networking, search, travel, and finance. She has designed interfaces for everything from cell phones to touch screens, focusing on user research as the platform for insight.
Julie is also a lecturer at the Stanford University d.school where she teaches a course on Cross Cultural Design. Prior to founding Sliced Bread Design, Julie was a Senior Interaction Designer at Financial Engines. She is the author of several articles on design and one on seductive interfaces. She is an active member of the AIGA and the Interaction Design Association, and a frequent contributor to interaction design community discussions. Julie received from Stanford University a BS in Symbolic Systems and a MA in Communication, both with a specialization in Human Computer Interaction. Her favorite bread is a really good French baguette with lots of brie.
Principal
Ellen creates user-centered design strategies. As a Principal and Founder of Sliced Bread Design, Ellen manages company operations and spearheads project strategy and execution. Over the last twelve years, Ellen has worked with some of the biggest companies in the Bay Area and around the world,including Adobe, Hewlett Packard and Intuit. She has led design and research projects for everything from mobile technologies to voice interfaces to desktop and web applications.
Before founding Sliced Bread Design in 2001, Ellen was Product Design Lead at Financial Engines and a Member of the Research Staff at Interval Research Corporation. She has taught courses in Interaction Design at Stanford University, published design articles, and presented at international conferences. Ellen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MS in Computer Science with a specialization in Human Computer Interaction. Her favorite bread is bread pudding.
Design Director
Mia helps clients design compelling, usable products. As a Design Director at Sliced Bread Design, Mia works closely with clients to understand their needs, develop design strategies, and create engaging experiences. She has brought her thorough and insightful style to an amazingly wide variety of design domains and platforms. Her work over the last six years includes health care, smart grid, search, shopping, and real estate for web, desktop, mobile and touchscreen.
Before joining Sliced Bread Design, Mia was at Stanford University, where she graduated with honors and earned a BS in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Human Computer Interaction. While at Stanford, she performed HCI-related research at the Stanford Cognitive Psychology Laboratory and completed an independent honors thesis on shared representations in collaborative problem solving. Mia is a fan of really fresh banana bread.
Art Director
Jakub ensures that products have substance AND style. As the Art Director at Sliced Bread, Jakub crafts visual designs that capture the brand and entice the users for each product Sliced Bread Design delivers.
Jakub has been doing visual and graphic design for over 12 years, working with brands such as Williams-Sonoma, Magellan Navigation, Dockers, and Johnson & Johnson. Jakub has a BA in Communications with an emphasis in mass media and advertising from the University of California Santa Barbara. His favorite bread is focaccia.
Project Manager
Carrie keeps everyone at Sliced Bread Design on time, on budget, and hard at work. As a Project Manager, Carrie is responsible for allocating resources in order to make sure that every project is staffed correctly. She also handles all the billing and invoicing for Sliced Bread Design and generally keeps the office running smoothly.
Before joining Sliced Bread Design, Carrie spent six years at Siebel in various roles, most recently as a Senior Project Analyst and three years as the Manager of a Biology Lab at Stanford University. Carrie graduated from UC Davis, where she earned a degree in Genetics and published an article about fruit flies in Science Magazine. Since she's a San Francisco native, Carrie's favorite bread is obviously sourdough with butter and garlic.
Design Director
Jenny works directly with clients to design products that people love. As Design Director at Sliced Bread Design, Jenny spends her time interfacing closely with clients and their customers, making sure that every design is outstanding. For more than ten years, Jenny has been designing consumer products and websites, conducting user experience research, and managing teams of world class designers to create products that people crave.
Prior to joining Sliced Bread Design, Jenny was Design Manager for the Adobe Creative Suite products. She holds a BS in Computer Science with a focus on Interaction Design from Stanford University. She has received design patents and presented at conferences on best practices in experience design. Her favorite bread is Rye bread.
Senior Interaction Designer
Kim designs products that make sense. In the past 15 years, Kim has designed everything from large financial portals to tiny mobile applications, all with a commitment to creating user experiences that are delightful and easy to use. A remarkably quick study, Kim loves to learn about new subject areas and translate her knowledge into clear, usable interfaces and information environments. Her client work has included numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Charles Schwab, Sun, Cisco, and Hewlett Packard.
Prior to working with Sliced Bread, Kim was the Director of User Experience at Hot Studio in San Francisco, where she developed and evangelized a strong user-centered design discipline. She has presented at design conferences, taught classes, and contributed to books on web development. Kim graduated Magna Cum Laude in economics and social science at Harvard University. Her favorite bread is the one she’s baking right now.
Want to Work at Sliced Bread Design?
Sliced Bread Design is looking for a senior interaction designer to join our team. We are a boutique user research and interaction design agency of smart, down to earth folks who have a passion for thoughtful, high quality interaction design. We primarily work on consumer web and mobile interfaces. Our recent projects range from a smart grid energy site, to a social networking site for foodies, to a mobile video device and application. If you’re interested in a flexible, collaborative, homey environment to work on a variety of user-centered design projects, Sliced Bread is the place for you.