testimonials

ALAN NATALE, LEAD UX / UI DESIGNER AT APPLE

I hired and managed Dorothy at Entertainment Partners, and I can confidently say that she is an excellent designer. She really worked hard to understand the problems the user were trying to solve, then incorporated the feedback into her solutions, continuing to test along the way. I was very impressed with openness to learn and to take on some complex problems to solve. She was a valued member of the UX team always with a great point of view and can-do attitude. Dorothy will be an asset to any UX effort.

TOM PALFREYMAN, VP PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AT ABC FITNESS SOLUTIONS

Dorothy is the real deal - she understands deep customer empathy, she quickly learns workflows and pain points and can articulate them well, she can design solutions that fit those needs, she collaborates extremely well with everyone, she's humble enough to learn from everyone, and she's really has no ego that keeps her from making excellent contributions. Hard to find all that in one package at any stage of someone's career but she's already there. I always trust her work. Such a pleasure working with her.

Sam Kashikar, Senior Product Manager at Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.

I had the pleasure of working with Dorothy during her internship at Cornerstone. Dorothy helped redesign my product's landing page and onboarding experience from user testing to multiple iterations until we arrived at a final paradigm. Aside from enjoying my day-to-day with Dorothy as a great coworker, I was impressed by her organization, tenacity to iterate towards a solution rapidly yet carefully, and her ability to learn and create solutions for a complex problem for a very complex product. Most of all, I was especially impressed by much she improved over such a small period of time to build us a fantastic design paradigm that our product's been waiting for! 😄 She's incredibly smart, tenacious, and fun to work with. I hope you'd come and work with us again someday, Dorothy!

Roger Yeh, Product Design Manager at Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.

Sometimes you get a designer who is smart in their craft, but a pain to work with. On the other hand, there is the designer who’s a great character, but lacks substance. Then you get Dorothy, who is the best of both. She’s observant, proactive, asks the right questions, and just gets it. No matter how many times I’ve thrown her under the bus whether it’s a complex project or a tight deadline, she manages to accomplish her work in spades and abnormally stay positive. She’s known in the office as someone we can DPeng on. We miss her, especially her antics.

JANE SU, PRODUCT DESIGNER

Dorothy was one of the most hard-working and dedicated young designers I have ever seen. She took on any project coming her way with enthusiasm and the strive to make the product better. She worked closely with her PM and carried out rounds and rounds of design with no complaint. In just a short period of time, I see Dorothy grew her design skill and strength to work through a project. There was no doubt that she was going to be a great asset to any company and I definitely would want to work with Dorothy again!

KENDALL MILLER, RECRUITING COORDINATOR AT FACEBOOK

Working with Dorothy at Cornerstone has been such a pleasure. She has many great qualities but most of all she is passionate and hardworking. She is always going above and beyond in her work and strives for perfection. While working on redesigning the product’s new insight page, assisting with integrating Cornerstone’s learning platform and updating brand’s colors to align with standards, she has not only executed them but she has done them with enthusiasm. Dorothy is a vital team member, an effective communicator and a problem solver. I recommend her to all employers looking to hire a well-rounded individual who is extremely passionate for their field.

DJ Johnson, M.F.A. Documentary Filmmaker and Educator at Media Arts + Practice

Dorothy is a highly motivated and intelligent student. She commands a nuanced and sophisticated worldview that has been honed through the international and cross-cultural nature of her studies and lived experience. Dorothy’s scholarly writing was of the highest quality. Her strong critical thinking skills and command of complex theoretical concepts were demonstrated in her work. Dorothy's multimedia projects were vibrantly creative, reflecting her excellent design skills and technical proficiency across a range of authoring platforms.

Dorothy is a compassionate young person who thinks deeply about the world. Throughout the semester, she engaged profound questions about social justice and demonstrated her awareness of the complex ways in which social systems interact to maintain inequalities. She is also knowledgeable as to how digital technologies can be leveraged to intervene against oppressive forces.

Mark Vong, Cloud Solution Engineer at Oracle

Dorothy was always the first to arrange meetings outside of class, and coordinated well along with the team during the duration of the team. Her talented design skills definitely guided us to the right path in the beginning. I would love to work with her again.

Nick Morof, JUNIOR ARCHITECT AT MOREAU KUSONOKI

Throughout the interview, it became evident that Dorothy is a deep thinker. Her art is not just simply a way to show the technical skills that she has developed over the years. Instead, and in my opinion, contrary to many other developing artists at USC, Dorothy tries to take artifacts from the world that have meaning and make her art a way to comment on what she think is wrong in this world. In a powerful sense, she sees her art as a way to express her views and commentary on the world better than her words. The most exciting part is that Dorothy is expressing herself in an art form that is still very new to the world. She has the ideas for some special projects, so it will be interesting to see how they come to fruition soon.