Julie Turgeon — Software Designer

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.


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.

highlights

I redesigned The Met's online collection around how people actually explore art.

I leveraged insights about our users' searching and browsing habits to rethink The Met's online collection, increasing satisfaction by 11% across more than half a million objects and 18 million annual visitors. The work laid the groundwork for the museum world's first semantic search experience.

Redesigned search results page for The Met's online collection

I wrangled a design system mess into a single unified system that made the whole team stronger.

I consolidated four legacy design systems into a single unified system during The Met's website replatforming, giving designers and developers a shared foundation for building faster and more consistently.

The Met design system