It is with much gratitude and admiration that we celebrate the jury alumni members of the Core77 Design Awards.
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Jury Alumni
Kristin Koch
Freelance Product Designer
2019 Strategy & Research Jury Member
Kristin is a product designer based in New York. Before transitioning into a product design role, she worked as a User Experience Researcher at Facebook and Refinery29. She is passionate about mission-driven technology and in her free time volunteers as a designer for Tech of Campaigns, an organization that connects tech workers with state-level political campaigns.
Barton Smith
Product Designer, Spotify
2019 Strategy & Research Jury Member
Barton is a Product Designer based in New York, many miles from his hometown in Australia. He's currently at Spotify designing creative tools for artists and previously worked at FiftyThree, Facebook and Fuseproject. He equally loves working on complex systems and dynamic interfaces, and spends a lot of time thinking about the movement of culture, trends and ideas.
Gabriel Valdivia
Lead Designer, Jigsaw
2019 Strategy & Research Jury Captain
Gabe is a Cuban Product Designer based in New York, currently exploring how technology could make people safer at Jigsaw. Prior to that, he explored social VR and content creation at Facebook, as well as smart driving at Automatic. He’s passionate about design mentorship, empowering diverse perspectives, and creating transformative experiences through the power of storytelling.
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