Paula Wellings

Paula Wellings is an experience designer at Adaptive Path. She is a strong believer that our designs define who we are and who we will become; she is passionate about designs that illuminate our best human qualities: Kindness, respect, honesty, courage, humor, charm, integrity. One of her strengths as a designer is showing her clients the worlds they can create and the people they have the opportunity to influence when they make great ideas become great products and experiences.

Professional Background

Throughout her career, Paula has pursued her interest in the situative and psychosocial nature of how people interact with artifacts and environments. She advocates that great experiences require thinking strategically about the ecological systems formed by people, organizations, markets, and stakeholders and delivering products and services that evolve these systems in positive ways.

Past employers and clients include Human Code, Sapient, projekt202, Stanford University, WOWIO, Hasbro Interactive, IC2 Institute, Texas Workforce Commission, Dell, Citibank, Teachscape, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Spark Media, Thomson West, Microsoft.

Paula received her Masters of Art in Learning, Design & Technology from Stanford University and her Bachelors of Design in Electronic Communication Design from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. She is a ukulele player in training and a strong advocate for Snap Circuits.

Past Appearances

May 10
Paula Wellings lead the workshop Who's got the remote? Design research with families, couples and other interdependent groups at the IIT Institute of Design's 9th Annual Design Research Conference in Chicago.

April 27
Paula Wellings will teach the Design Research day at Adaptive Path's UX Intensive in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

June 15-18
Paula Wellings will be teaching at the UX Intensive Workshop in San Francisco, California.

May 11-14
Paula Wellings taught the Design Research day at the UX Intensive Workshop in Berlin, Germany.

April 21
Paula Wellings moderated the IxDA Austin Effective Prototyping Panel in Austin, TX.

February 5-8
Paula Wellings spoke at Interaction 09 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.