graciela

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graciela smet

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education

Stanford University

M.S. Computer Science

2024

Human-Computer Interaction

B.S. Engineering

2023

Product Design

experience

my work focuses on designing and scaling online community ecosystems to revive the internet as a place that brings people together.

The New York Times

Product Designer

jun '25 - pres

Leading design on experimental new conversation formats and associated newsroom tooling to reimagine safe, trustworthy, and thoughtful digital spaces for discussing the news

Associate Product Designer

aug '24 - jun '25

Led design on the newsroom tooling ecosystem for moderating and curating 150,000+ reader comments across 200 stories / week.

Product Design Intern

jun '23 - jun '24

Designed components and tooling for Ink, the internal design system used across 24+ major tools to serve a 3000+ person newsroom

Silk

Volunteer Full Stack Developer

dec '24 - feb '26

Led development on core functionality like the activity feed, chatrooms, communities, and collaborative webs as beta grew from 0 to 1000+ users.

Stanford University

DESIGN 1 Course Assistant

mar '24 - jun '24

guided students through design thinking fundamentals and techniques in foundational d.school course for the newly restructured design program.

Breakout Mentors

Kids Coding Mentor

jun '22 - jun '23

mentored beginner students through personalized interactive coding projects in Python and React Native

Glimpse Dating

Lead UX/Graphic Designer

dec '20 - nov '21

led UI/UX and brand identity for dating app that launched at 5 universities with 3000+ downloads and a 4.5 star rating

skills

design systems, prototyping, UI/UX design, service design, creative problem solving, user research, game design, front-end development, creative coding

Figma, Adobe Suite, Blender, Fusion 360, Webflow, Notion

React, React Native, Next JS, Remix, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, Python, Unity, C, C#, C++, Firebase, SQL, Drizzle, p5.js, Arduino