{"id":95,"date":"2015-07-19T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2024-12-31T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T21:34:14","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Klein"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"--shape:url(#tw-shape-organic-circle-1);\" class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-785\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSCF0842-edited-1568x1569.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hello! I&#8217;m Danielle, and <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m a holistic UX practitioner and leader, with strong roots in UX Research. What&#8217;s most important to me in my work is understanding people and their problems first, no matter what we&#8217;re doing<\/span>. If we start from there, we&#8217;ll find a path forward worth pursuing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, I work as a Director of Product Design at 1Password,<\/span> leading a team of product designers making security simple and intuitive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before 1Password, I worked at Wealthsimple, FreshBooks <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and several local startups in Toronto, and was a co-founder of the UX Research Conference. I also hold a Master&#8217;s degree in User Experience Design from the University of Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#getintouch\">Get in touch<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2><b>Things I love at work<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building &amp; leading UX teams<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlocking UXers\u2019 growth<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Problem-led, data-informed product &amp; service design<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UX ops and&nbsp;making UX&nbsp;work a&nbsp;delight<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collaborating with and learning from other disciplines<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting customers and their jobs to be done meaningfully<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading with a lens of&nbsp;diversity, equity &amp; inclusion in everything<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Being a mentee and a mentor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing &amp; storytelling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2><b>Things I love outside work<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simply <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a good walk, and I take a lot of them. My preferred remote 1-1 is outdoors on our phones getting some fresh air.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I collect postcards and I send many of them. I also still do lots of writing, but it&#8217;s mostly in my journal these days.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karaoke. My partner and I do a very spirited duet of &#8216;When You Believe&#8217; by Mariah Carey &amp; Whitney Houston \u2014 yes, it&#8217;s ambitious, and no, we absolutely do not hit all those high notes<\/span>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In no particular order: iced coffee, oysters, breakfast sandwiches, and French 75s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The joyful but challenging art of doing nothing: sleeping, reading, watching things, video games.<\/span> It&#8217;s hard to turn off my brain, but I&#8217;m happily perfecting this skill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure style=\"--shape:url(#tw-shape-organic-circle-4);\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/postcards.jpg\" alt=\"Postcards from my collection\" class=\"wp-image-724\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/postcards.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/postcards-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/postcards-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"getintouch\"><b>Get in touch<\/b> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to chat UX, see case studies, or maybe just trade postcards? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/daniellejklein\/\">Reach out to me on LinkedIn.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3><b>New to UX, or looking to break into the industry?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You got this<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1kZLShGt-GMfjmeWf4NwbOIbiir_AL03WJM85FPYDZSs\/edit?usp=sharing\">Check out my UX FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I&#8217;m Danielle, and I&#8217;m a holistic UX practitioner and leader, with strong roots in UX Research. What&#8217;s most important to me in my work is understanding people and their problems first, no matter what we&#8217;re doing. If we start from there, we&#8217;ll find a path forward worth pursuing. Today, I work as a Director&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Danielle Klein<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielleklein.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}