Aura Escobar, Inclusive and Innovative Product Designer

Aura Escobar, a multi-talented product designer with a heart of gold. Aura immigrated to the United States from Venezuela. Her experience is in product design, soft goods design, UX, VUI, design research, and strategy.

Currently, she is a lead designer and researcher for the Stratos Innovation Group. She is interested in the application of service design in the public sector, government, and social impact. With a background in industrial design, she continues to look for ways to be a more holistic designer. In her job at Stratos Innovation Group, she also practices service design. They work in the healthcare, insurance, education, and senior living industries, and are now starting to work closely with local organizations to use service design to improve our community.

Aura’s senior thesis focused on understanding how people who are deaf experience music today, and what their ideal experience will be. She kicked off a project with First Build after doing a hackathon around the future of cooking, where my team focused on designing a more accessible cooktop for people who have visual impairment. Venezuela is going through a lot right now, and the cost of healthcare is too much for what people and their income can afford. A couple of years ago, she created a campaign for her neighbor back home who suffered and died from Cancer. Today, she is doing this fundraiser to help a friend who lives with Lupus, and she hopes in the future to help more people like them.