Thayna Santana

These days I'm a Product Designer at Enzzo, where I spend most of my time on one question: how should an AI system talk to the people using it? I design the patterns behind that — when it asks a question, when it just gets out of the way, how it shows its work so people actually trust it.

Before this I spent five years as a front-end developer, including a stint at Accenture building SAP tools for an oil and gas client, and a few years running my own small studio helping startups turn an idea into something people could actually use. I have a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Washington, and design has been my focus ever since.

Fun fact: before any of this I studied Political Science and worked as a lobbyist. My name is pronounced like "China, but with a T," and means "sunshine" in Tupi-Guarani, one of Brazil's native languages.