Hi, I'm Mary – a Senior Product Designer with a sociologist’s heart 🏛 and a researcher’s curiosity 🤓. Armed with a background in Sociology (B.A., M.A., and nearly a PhD), I’m fascinated by how people think, interact, and decide. I channel those insights into designing digital products that solve real problems and create lasting impact.
I find it exciting (and sometimes a bit magical ✨) to redefine how people interact with data, buy containers, collaborate with peers, manage study plans, and care for one another—using design as a tool for positive change.
Outside the design realm, you’ll often catch me:
🥾 Hiking in new landscapes (I’ve lived in 8 countries over the last three years, so there’s been plenty of trails!)
🍳 Cooking (Yes, I can easily host and serve a feast
for 12 – bring on the taste testers!)
📚 Curling up with a good book or sketching illustrations
(sometimes I even do both at the same time!)
I’m also running Mary Decodes Design, a weekly newsletter where I distill my favorite product design insights—so you don’t have to juggle 50+ browser tabs. My hope is to share the spark of curiosity that drives me every day, both as a designer and as an eager explorer of life.
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Career
Throughout my career, I've had the privilege of working with diverse clients, from large corporations to innovative startups. This drives my passion for creating products that empower individuals to efficiently generate value for themselves and others.
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Course "Design Thinking for Kids"
Creator&Teacher
Developed and taught the “Design Thinking for Kids” curriculum for EPAM’s E-kids program (for
children aged 8–14), focusing on design concepts and problem-solving skills aligned with the UN’s
Global Development Agenda 2030.
Sep–Nov 2020
"Design for Middle East"
Speaker
Presented “Launching a SaaS Product for the Arabian Market” at a Product Design Meetup, sharingbest practices for designing Arabic interfaces and SaaS products in the Middle East (Jul 2020).
Sep–Nov 2020
Big Data in Social Science
Speaker
Big Data in Social Science (ENG)// “Big Data and the Power of Narrative”: The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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