Anna France
Senior User Experience Designer at WAF Fine Art & Illustration
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolAnna Kaziunas France is a senior user experience designer and digital fabrication pioneer who blends UX and hands-on making across SaaS and hardware ecosystems. Currently at PTC, she designs SaaS experiences in the IIoT space, translating complex industrial data into usable interfaces, while drawing on a rich background as a maker, editor, and educator. Her career spans leadership UX roles at Infosys/WONGDOODY and a long-running engagement with Maker Media, where she edited Make: books and led 3D printing and digital fabrication coverage, shaping how hobbyists and professionals approach fabrication. An accomplished educator, she served as Fab Academy Dean and directed Make: magazine's 3D Printer Shootout testing events, cultivating global communities around rapid prototyping and open, computer-controlled workflows. Anna holds an MS in Information Science with a focus on human factors and usability, plus a Fab Academy diploma, reflecting a deep commitment to user-centered design and hands-on fabrication. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, she champions parametric, open design and biofabrication explorations that push the boundaries between software interfaces and physical artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Digital Fabrication (Fab Academy), Digital Fabrication / Electronics Design, Diploma in Digital Fabrication (Fab Academy), Digital Fabrication / Electronics Design at Academany - The Academy of (almost) AnythingMaster's degree, Information Science: Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, Master's degree, Information Science: Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture at Indiana University BloomingtonRhode Island School of DesignBachelor's degree, Economics, Sociology / Anthropology, Bachelor's degree, Economics, Sociology / Anthropology at Earlham College
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Github Skills (12)
controlling5
backend5
plotter5
asciidoctor4
euler4
inkscape4
cnc-controller2
gcode2
3d-printer2
cnc2
3d-printing2
odin1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
akaziuna/cnc-standing-height-workbench
Dec 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:37 commits, 3 pushes in 4 months
akaziuna/akf_projects_1col
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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