Kaltuma Mohamed

Kaltuma is deeply passionate about understanding people and designing products that focus on innovation through empathy and creativity. Kaltuma brings nearly a decade of research experience from the medical and psychology disciples. She is an Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium recipient, a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, and studied neuroscience as a Fellow with Yale University’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program.

Kaltuma credits her background in biology and neuroscience for playing an integral role in bridging science and design. Her work in design research, a critical component of design thinking, focuses on understanding users, their needs, and the contexts that shape their experiences. For her, the systematic and disciplined approach of design research not only enhances the overall design process but also enables organizations to integrate design thinking into their business decisions. Kaltuma's interest in exploring the intersection of behavioral psychology and human-computer interaction drove her transition into editorial work in order to share the stories and methods that drive our digital world.