Nicole is a Strategist, Product and UX designer, Design Researcher, and Educator.
Nicole’s multidisciplinary work experience spans Strategy, UX/UI, Edtech, Speculative Design and Product cycles, Luxury, Innovation, AI, emergent Technologies and Digital Fabrication. She specializes in Management, Client Experience, Design Thinking, Synthesis and high-level Presentation, and Product Design Technologies. She focuses on Leadership, Human Considerate Design, and is trained in Agile practices.
Nicole teaches Disruptive Design and Making, Research and Fabrication, Professional Landscapes, Design Thinking, Applied Design Visualization, Analysis of Product and Soft Goods for Assistive Wearables for Product Design and Design Research Masters Programs, Dept. of Architecture Design and Urbanism at Drexel University. Her debut fashion collection, featuring the world’s first dress made of 3D printed yarn, walked Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Russia, SS2019.
Nicole has garnered extensive experience around the world and across the US with some of the most influential names in design, including Hermes of Paris, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Wings Team, Sol De Janeiro, Sally Beauty Holdings, CD Greene, Prabal Gurung, Vogue Knitting, Jessica Min Ahn, and Free People. In addition, Nicole has collaborated with and worked for the Columbia University Thingspace, PennDesign Fabrication Laboratory, Drexel University’s ExCite Center, the Drexel University Hybrid Making Lab, The Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, URBN SteamLab, Emergency Information Systems, The National Liberty Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Inliquid, Design Within Reach, and the Horsham Ballet Theater. Nicole's graduate thesis work "Knit Evolution in Digital Couture" was recognized as the "Most Original and Creative Graduate Research 2018" at Drexel University. Nicole was name a CFDA+ Design Graduate for 2018, in the Futurists category, and with the statement "I AM a Fashion Disrupter".
Nicole was recognized by the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Awards 2021, “Education Entrepreneurship, Social Mobility”, as Design Lead with Emergency Information Systems, and worked as a Student Technologist at “2 x 4, An Innovation Forum” at The Barnes Foundation. Her writings and design works have been featured in a wide variety of media including Fashionating World and The Telegraph UK. In 2020, Nicole joined the Advisory Board of The Compuseum, a Philadelphia interactive computer science museum, as a key leader in design, fashion, 3D tech and break-out concepts in haute couture.
BFA, Fine Arts/Crafts, University of the Arts MS, Design Research/Technology, Drexel UniversityMS, Fashion Design, Drexel University