Hi! I'm Erin Gwozdz.
For over a decade, I've worked with startups, non-profits, and Fortune 500 companies to solve critical UX and business challenges in healthcare and life sciences. I'm motivated by ideas that address inequities, challenge the status quo, and seek to improve lives.

On the weekends you can find me painting at Joy Street Studios, birdwatching, or going to estate sales.
To be a designer means not only to be a sensible manipulator of techniques, an analyst of present production processes, but also to accept the social obligations connected with it.

— László Moholy-Nagy (1944)

I wear many hats and enjoy them equally.

UX/UI Design

Asking the right questions, trying stuff out, and learning how to improve.

User Research

A blend of qualitative and quantitative research methods to inform decision-making.

Branding

While form should follow function, it's important to remember that visual design impacts value perception.

Experience Overview

At GroupVisual.io, I applied data visualization, behavioral science, and storytelling to solve critical UX and business challenges for healthcare and life sciences companies.

At the Broad Institute, I led product design for the Data Donation Platform, which enables multi-modal data collection for rare disease research.

Since 2014, I have helped study teams design and build over 15 studies across rare disease, cancer, and autism spectrum disorder, and my designs have shaped the experience of over 400k patients and families internationally.

In addition to my experience in humans subjects research, study design, and patient engagement, I have consulted with enterprise teams across industries to make internal tools more actionable and intuitive. By blending user experience best practices with data visualization hueristics, I work with prod/eng teams to build workflows that help users get the job done.
Self-Employed
DEC 2024 – PRESENT
Design Consultant
Broad Institute
Jan 2021 – Oct 2024
Senior UX Designer
Broad Institute
JUL 2019 – JAN 2021
UX/UI Designer
GroupVisual.io
FEB 2015 – MAY 2019
UX/UI Designer
GroupVisual.io
JUN 2014 – FEB 2015
Junior Designer
Alphabet Arm
FEB 2014 – MAY 2014
Design Intern

Community Engagement

Each year I look forward to peer-reviewing the UXPA Boston conference presentation proposals. After several years of participating as a reviewer and conference attendee, I decided to face my public speaking fears and presented "Delivering Data with Care" to a well-attended crowd. The talk covered my journey to create a system of narrative data visualizations that deliver research results back to SPARK study participants. I shared seven actionable take aways from the process, including using recognizable visual metaphors for your intended audience, as well as the trade-offs of templatization.
Erin is smiling and showing off their UXPA conference presenter lanyard.