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Jodie’s work at Fidelity Investments centers on bringing sophisticated investment tools to users with clarity and speed. Her work on the flagship mobile app includes: a redesigned Option Chain & Trade experience that combines user-friendly, data-driven design with powerful functionality; an updated Equity Trade flow that helps investors stay confident and connected in every market moment; a net new Auto Invest capability that makes recurring investing available to customers at all stages of their investing journey; and a reusable Brokerage Quote that delivers a consistent approach to quote displays across the app.

In-person experiences can also provide rich context for design, whether the response is digital or physical in form. Museum Mobile offers a mobile-first strategy that extends the museum experience beyond its walls. Transbay Block 9 takes part in a mixed-use urban development project whose goal is to transform the area into a transit-friendly, high-density neighborhood. Contemporary Art Institute finds form through material exploration and beauty in contrasts. The act of making is again spotlighted in Making Models, which looks at physical models as a means for communicating design intent at various altitudes. Design’s central role in storytelling plays out in Knobs — an exercise in uncovering an identity system around found objects, and in In Motion — examples of enriched digital storytelling through animation.

About

2020–, Principal UX Designer, Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
2022, Freelance Designer, Cottage, San Francisco, CA
2019, UX Designer, Harvard Business Review, Boston, MA
2018, UX Design Intern, Depict, San Francisco, CA
2016, Designer, Fougeron Architecture, San Francisco, CA
2015, Designer, Swatt Miers Architects, Emeryville, CA
2013, Design Intern, Trace Architecture Office, Beijing, China
2012, Design Intern, Slab Architecture, Brooklyn, NY
2012, Staff, GSAPP Exhibitions, New York, NY
2011, Design Intern, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo, Japan
2010, Design Intern, Buro Ole Scheeren, Beijing, China
2010, Participant, GSAPP China Lab, Beijing, China

Columbia University GSAPP, Master of Architecture
Middlebury College, Bachelor of Arts

Contact
Contemporary Art Institute, Steven Holl Studio (2011). With James Amaya.
Architecture


Summary
The Experimental Art Institute is a sensory experience. A discreet tribute to its surrounding environment, the building’s raw facade blends into the site landscape in Greenpoint, NY, where industrial buildings dominate the neighborhood. Once inside, the experience is completely original. Organically-shaped columns hold up rectangular volumes to create the effect of levity. The program progresses through a sequence of spaces completely unique to the process and materials by which the architecture is made.





Project overview
The site is located in an industrial area of Greenpoint in Brooklyn, NY- one block from the waterfront and mostly surrounded by warehouses. Signs of gentrification are starting to appear, notably with the newly retrofitted condos at the old Pencil Factory. The Art Insitute, nestled between functional swaths of waterfront, warehouses, and new condo complexes, should fit into the neighborhood physically and programatically.