Faith Gowen

Adobe · Product Designer, FireflySan Francisco, CA · Aug 2025 – Present

• Lead designer for Firefly Generations. Drove a redesign that lifted generation conversion, and reworked asset history, grid and list views, filtering, multi-select and navigation.
• Owned two months of cross-functional QA with engineering, product and program management, resolving 60+ issues before the public beta rollout.
• Designed 10+ features in the shared code prototype for leadership and stakeholder buy-in, and merged several through engineering code review.
• First designer on Firefly Foundry, Adobe's enterprise custom-model offering, then one of two designers. Designed vision-deck UI, custom-model validation, post-production workflows, AI video controls (multi-keyframe guidance, motion extraction, clip-matched length) and the image-to-3D alpha experiences, helping grow Foundry from one partner to 10+ enterprises.

Adobe · Product Design Intern (Graduate), XR · 3D&I team, FireflyMay 2024 – Aug 2024

• One of the first designers on Project Pulsar, Adobe's 3D and spatial video editor: mapped 15+ spatial tools, storyboarded the first customer journey for leadership and tested gestures across five headsets. Launched October 2025 on Samsung Galaxy XR.
• Co-built a pitch for a Firefly custom-model trial with a global brand.
• Wrote XR ergonomics guidance on fatigue, motion sickness and session length for the team to validate in the MVP.

IBM · Front End Developer InternMay 2023 – Aug 2023

• Cross-team point person for a feature that reached 100% of IBM Cloud Security clients, shipping 15+ issues in React on IBM's Carbon design system.

Abbott Laboratories · UX and XR Research InternMay 2021 – Aug 2021

• Presented HoloLens 2 use cases to senior leaders and led a funding proposal for a mixed reality rehab project for individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Duke Health ML Research Group · Applied ML Engineering InternMay 2020 – Jul 2020

• Analyzed topic modeling results and coded in Python Jupyter notebooks to flag COVID-19 symptoms in patient-portal messages and improve the efficiency of patient triaging.

University of Michigan · M.S. Information, HCI2025

Ann Arbor, MI · Certificate in Extended Reality · UMSI Achievement Fellowship

Duke University · B.S. Computer Science and Visual Art2023

Durham, NC · Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship