Mathias Crawford

• Managed research team at Visa Product Experience and Design, conducting generative and evaluative research in consumer and payments spaces. • Developed consulting expertise in commercial cards and B2B payments ecosystem. • Led team to deliver impactful insights driving strategic decisions. • Implemented innovative research methodologies to drive product development and enhance user experience.

UX Research Manager for US Wealth Management

Worked as Director of Play for SuperHeroic, a youth-focused active wear brand, including designing and building user-focused playful experiences for product launches in order to promote healthy play.

Co-founded the game design class at Stanford's d.School, a Design Thinking based game design class that was taken for credit by over 70 students over the course of multiple semesters

Reported the Vice President, New Landscape of Work to help create provide an intellectual basis for strategies around the future of the workplace, including in the production of both internal and external facing framing documents for the company and its clients.

Worked as lead game designer, including working intimately with partners like the American Heart Association in order to develop of an array of custom interactive experiences and games. This work involved running focus groups, performing qualitative and quantitative user research, and prototyping in order to identify and implement appropriate outcomes.

Worked with both international and domestic clients at the Institute for the Future in order to help create strategic foresight plans at the executive level.

My dissertation studied the dual roles of moderation and architecture (both physical and digital) in forming and sustaining communities in America, from World War II to the present.