Kristian Garza

I'm a Berlin-based Product Designer with AI smarts. My skill set includes robust research capabilities, prototyping, and coding, all aimed at crafting empowering and intuitive user experiences. I specialize in leveraging the intersection of design and AI to address real-world challenges.

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Portfolio

Interviews and design process

Creating a Bibliometrics Dashboard ➔
Design Sprint

Redesigning a Metadata Harvesting Service ➔
Survey and design process

Designing a Web Tracker for analytics ➔
Survey and design process

Creating a Design System ➔

Skills

  • End-to-end product design

  • Wireframing

    Figma

  • Workshop facilitation

    Miro, Design Sprints, LDJ, Restrospectives, Lean Canvas

  • Group Expert Walkthrough

  • Prototyping and Prototyping in Code

    VueJS, ReactJS, HTML, CSS

Published work

The Impact of Language User Interfaces on Finding Scholarly Repositories.

2023

DataCite Design System is ready to be worn.

2023

Breaking a Metadata Barrier: Improving discoverability with automatic subject classification

2023

ParrotGPT: On the Advantages of Large Language Models Tools for Academic Metadata Schema Mapping

2023

Academic Publishing web forms meet your demise: The unstoppable rise of large language models (ChatGPT)

2023

Revolutionizing Metadata Schema Mapping with ChatGPT

2022

Refining our Thinking: How we are improving DataCite design processes.

2022

D4.7 Tools for finding and selecting certified repositories for researchers and other stakeholders

2022

2021 FAIR Island Annual Report

2022

The FAIR Island Project: Tracking the impact of field station research

2022

Open hours updates: Spring re-launch open hours for consortium leads

2021

You shoulda put a PID on it: Leveraging the PID Graph for DMPs

2021

Are You There, Metadata? It’s Me, the Bibliometrician

2021

Frontend for the DataCite Commons service

2020

maDMPs Machine Actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs) demonstration.

2020

New Research Work on COVID-19 as the pandemic develops

2020

The DataCite MDC Stack

2020

A tale of two regions: Using Vega-Lite Population Pyramid to explore PIDs populations

2020

Datacite Citation Display: Unlocking Data Citations

2020