Our Alumni

Rebecca Meyer ('20)
2020 Co-Experience Architecture Student of the Year
Rebecca Meyer is an Experience Designer working to create empathetic and meaningful experiences that connect people across digital and physical spaces. She is interested in creative storytelling, systems thinking, and user experience research in order to understand the big picture before developing a strategy that supports sustainability, accessibility, and usability. While catering to client or user aesthetic, she is focused on designing democratic experiences that support both people and the environment through a holistically guided approach. She also looks to explore what the intersection of lifestyle branding, environmental sustainability, and the human experience can look like.

Sam Bloch ('20)
2020 Co-Experience Architecture Student of the Year
Sam Bloch is a User Experience Designer who helps clients find comfort in their technology, and introduce digital leverages to meet objectives. He believes his responsibility is to support users as well as to assist his team members in working smarter, not harder––whether that is as a content creator or a content supporter. His specialties include digital media, consumer behavior, brand awareness, graphic design, aesthetic enhancement, and many forms of hard and software troubleshooting.

Erin Campbell ('19)
Erin Campbell was selected as the 2019 Experience Architecture Student of the Year. She is passionate about empowering people through accessible and inclusive design. Her work explores the use of digital tools to help communities visualize others’ lived experiences in an attempt to cultivate empathy and enact systemic change.

Ashton Keys ('18)
Ashton Keys was selected as the 2018 Experience Architecture Student of the Year. During his time at MSU, Keys was involved in many impressive projects, working on content strategy with MSU Hatch, user research with the MSU Libraries, and user interface with Ninety6, a clothing company which he founded.

Meg Richardson ('16)
Meg Richardson credits her time in the MSU XA program as giving her the skills in research, writing, design, and more that allow her to craft experiences that are usable, accessible, and fun. She is currently located in Chicago and working as a Product Designer where she is responsible for UX and visual elements.

Shell Little ('16)
Shell Little is a Digital Accessibility Specialist at Wells Fargo DS4B on their Accessible User Experience (AUx) team. She is the Mobile Accessibility Lead along with the SME of the screen reader NVDA on her team. Thanks to XA, she is passionate about User Centered Design, Disability Rights, and Interaction Design.

Emily Dallaire ('16)
Emily Dallaire is an Experience Architect who is passionate about information design, interaction design, and usability. Not only does she bring a strong passion for experience design and creative interactions, but she also believes in sharing and telling users’ stories through their impact and participation in digital and physical spaces.