Bibiana Bauer

Bibiana Bauer

Experience Designer

A multi-disciplinary experience designer with a background that started in photography and music before finding its way into interaction design — drawn to the edges of the discipline, where the designed thing disappears and something real happens to the person inside it.

A multi-disciplinary experience designer with a background that started in photography and music before finding its way into interaction design — drawn to the edges of the discipline, where the designed thing disappears and something real happens to the person inside it.

Interdisciplinary designer combining holistic problem solving and systems thinking with empathy and imagination to create impactful products and experiences.

Experience

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Mobile App Team

Mobile App Team

Product Designer

Mar 2024 – present

Mar 2024 – present

• Led design for in-app display of upcoming vehicle health items, increasing user click-through rates by 400%
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• Led redesign of mobile app vehicle health and service dashboard experience, increasing dealer appointment bookings by 30%.

D-Ford Design Innovation Lab

D-Ford Design Innovation Lab

Interaction Designer

Jul 2019 – Mar 2024

Jul 2019 – Mar 2024

• Conceived and designed a holistic rider experience for an autonomous vehicle ride-sharing concept, including mode-based interior environments (lighting, seating, ambient sound, screens) tailored to ride types such as Commute, Rest, and Socialize.

• Co-designed UI and input interactions for Ford's panoramic dashboard display system, now shipping in the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus and 2025 Ford Expedition.

• Led UX for enterprise fleet management tool enabling over-the-air software updates across large commercial vehicle fleets.

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Design Technologist

Apr 2019 – Sep 2019

Apr 2019 – Sep 2019

• Designed and built a mixed reality experience for HoloLens mapping 1,000 survey responses across spatial dimensions, with audio clips from real interview subjects; returned in 2026 to reframe the experience as an anthropological time capsule viewed from 100 years in the future.

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Product Design Intern

Sep 2018 – May 2019

Sep 2018 – May 2019

• Provided UX/UI design across web and mobile for a B2B SaaS employee directory product, acquired by Slack in 2021.

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Interaction Design Intern

May 2018 – May 2019

May 2018 – May 2019

• Redesigned the nutrition app paradigm for oncology patients post-treatment — where the goal is caloric gain rather than loss, and eating enough despite limited appetite is the core challenge.

Experience & Spatial Design

XR/AR/VR

Spatial Design

Storyboarding

Motion Design

Narrative Design

Concepting

Product & Interaction Design

UX/UI Design

Rapid Prototyping

Design Systems

User Research

creative & technical

HTML, CSS, JS, C#

Videography

Music & Composition

Tools

Figma

Figma

framer

framer

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adobe cc

UNITY

UNITY

blender

blender