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Madison Blaize Russ

Design Technologist and Senior Product Designer working across healthcare operations, AI-enabled workflows, complex data products, information architecture, reporting systems, and visualization-driven decision tools.

Experience

Recent roles

Senior Product Designer

LeanTaaS / September 2024 - Present

  • Designing for iQueue for OR with a focus on Case Coordination and Patient Prep workflows.
  • Shaping AI-enabled products for PAT teams, including AI Voice Agents and HIE medical chart synthesis supporting Patient Readiness scores.
  • Designing workflows that help Pre-Anesthesia Testing teams assess readiness, coordinate missing information, and reduce friction across clinical preparation.
  • Improving AI-assisted design practice by creating Claude rules and skills that help designers leverage codebases and existing Figma designs.
  • Accelerating prototyping and prototype-to-code handoffs by connecting design exploration more closely to implementation context.

Lead Product Designer

Backpack / February 2022 - September 2024

  • Established collaborative cross-team design processes through brainstorming, research synthesis, wireframing, and high-fidelity product design.
  • Led user-focused redesigns for complex building-performance data products, including navigation, reporting, and Energy Star workflows.
  • Collaborated with Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Success to align product decisions around user needs and implementation realities.
  • Designed platform patterns that helped users find datasets faster, understand portfolio-level data, and take action inside complex workflows.

Research Scientist

The Oden Institute at UT Austin / September 2023 - Present

  • Created 3D terrain models and assets to visualize hurricane impacts and coastline vulnerabilities on the Texas Coast.
  • Enhanced grant proposals for integrated storm surge and infectious disease modeling through data visualization expertise.
  • Used R and Python to extract and analyze max inundation data points from ADCIRC models, improving storm surge renderings.

Digital Design Engineer Sr. Analyst

Citibank / November 2020 - February 2022

  • Developed UX architecture for a Risk and Controls dashboard supporting regulatory risk and compliance workflows.
  • Applied design thinking strategies and stakeholder perspectives to improve understanding across risk environments.
  • Used agile methods and prototyping to support faster engineering implementation.
  • Received a Gold Award for collaboration and problem-solving across the company.

Education

Academic background

Master of Architecture

Rhode Island School of Design / 2019

Bachelor of Arts, Set Design

The University of Texas at Austin / 2015

Focus Areas

  • Product design for complex platforms
  • AI-enabled healthcare workflows
  • Information architecture and data workflows
  • Reporting, dashboards, and decision-support tools
  • AI-assisted design process and prototyping
  • Research synthesis and systems mapping

Skills

  • Figma, Sketch, Jira, Confluence, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro
  • Claude rules and skills for design workflows
  • UX research, usability testing, A/B testing, stakeholder interviews
  • Sketching, wireframing, prototyping, design systems
  • R, Python, CSS, HTML, ArcGIS Pro, QGIS