Hi! I’m Kendra Sarvadi.
I’m a designer working on tech products and other projects to improve the common good.
I’ve been a UX and product designer on healthcare.gov for the past seven years, working to clarify and streamline the federal application people use to find out if they’re eligible for marketplace coverage, Medicaid, and CHIP.
Strategy, sensemaking, copywriting, and information design are my favorite skills to flex, though I’ve led work on and enjoy all parts of the design process, from discovery to iteration.
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I became a designer because I wanted to learn methods and practices to envision and enact social change along with other people.
These values guide my work:
Our actions affect each other, and when applied to technology the impacts of our decisions are magnified. It’s our responsibility to recognize the potential for harm in our products and services, and to work actively and fiercely to prevent it.
All is not lost! We can and must push back against the exploitation of people’s desire for useful technology, which corrodes our rights to privacy and safety in the name of profit.
Technology should meaningfully serve people. To me, good service means a tool is useful, accessible, clear, calm, and consentful.
“There is such an urgency in the multitude of crises we face, it can make it hard to remember that it is in fact urgency thinking (urgent constant unsustainable growth) that got us to this point, and that our potential success lies in doing deep, slow, intentional work.”
- adrienne marie brown, Emergent Strategy
100% made by a human, no AI.
Massive thanks to Mel Woodard, Zoe Panagopoulos, and Laura Theis for the feedback on this website and materials, and for everything else.
Font is Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, available for free from the Braille Institute.
Icons: Cindy Van Heerden, “biodiversity”, Muhammad Syaifuddin, “private” , Roronoa15, “wrench”, all via Noun Project.