About

Gretchen Mars is a Product Designer with expertise in visual design, education, and user research. She is a design thinker with over 10 years of visual design experience and project management, with proven experience designing for world-renowned brands. She is passionate about transforming ideas into visual designs so people can connect with the world around them. 

She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, and her visual arts expertise brings a wider aperture to the customer experience. Her former position of five years as a Creative and Quality Assurance Tester at Apple has deeply rooted her empathy for users and interpersonal skills through a strong people-oriented approach. Her experience as an educator in technology, fine arts, Pilates, and Gyrotonics has given her an excellent chance to understand and connect with users of all ages and backgrounds. Her strong points are empathy, creativity, ideation, and collaboration. She believes that the right music can set a perfect mood for any situation and has a love for green olives. She is a Designer who loves to connect the digital to the physical.