Julie Turgeon — Software Designer

I am a Swiss Army Knife product design lead who moves fluidly between strategy, systems, and pixels. My specialty is delivering clean, structured solutions to unruly, sprawling problems. I thrive in resource-constrained environments where the mandate is to do more with less.


by day

lead product designer, the metropolitan museum of art

At The Met, I set the direction for design across a suite of digital products, steward our design system, and help cultivate the next generation of designers through our fellowship program. Working on a small team means I regularly roll up my sleeves and get into the pixels (and into the codebase!).

by night

visiting assistant professor, pratt institute

I teach Information Architecture, Interaction Design, and Digital Product Design to graduate students in Pratt's Information Experience Design program, introducing and deepening their understanding of the design process with an emphasis on research-backed decision-making.

recent work I'm proud of
  • I leveraged insights about our users' searching and browsing behaviors to redesign The Met's online collection, increasing satisfaction by 11% for a collection of nearly 500,000 objects visited by 18 million people annually.
I shaped the introduction of the museum world's first semantic search experience, aligning search with how people naturally discover art.