PRODUCT, INSPIRED
Are you ready for the now?
In the last 2 years, everything we thought we knew about design and product making has changed. Are you falling behind?
Great teams and designers now build AI pipelines to speed products and features from concept to release. But not everyone has the savvy to define the right thing to build in the first place.
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Get and analyse feedback faster
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Align product, design and engineering
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Integrate the design process into the code base
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Build the right thing, better, faster
I bring 30 years of product design wisdom and innovation - centering the customer and digging in to the real problems that lie beneath the surface of observations.
MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY
How do I build high-performing teams?
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Build on strengths
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Teach & reinforce experimentation skills
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Impact storytelling
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Prioritize & automate
I spent 10 years at Autodesk as a manager. I bring the same philosophy of mentorship and collaboration to my individual contributor work. As a senior member of any team, I strive for everyone to succeed.
For Autodesk's platform, I created a high-performing, diverse team of 42 designers, content designers and researchers in a 3 year period with <10% turnover during a period of >33% turnover in the tech industry. Built the team from 9 designers to 42 designers in under 3 years, while my department was headcount flat, by convincing engineering leadership of the value of design and gaining backfills when there was engineering attrition.
I went on to help a team of research intern-conversions reach their full potential. In two and a half years, the team went from frustrated and unheard, to key contributors to Autodesk's platform strategy with monthly VP-level meetings. We automated systems, made every team member indispensable to their product manager, contributed to company-wide programs and created a stable of 20% of our customers available to test and give feedback to us.
“Every organization has people who generate ideas. Far fewer have people who can recognize the difference between an interesting idea and a useful one. Capra is one of those people.”
Pooja Vijay Kumar, Senior Manager, Content Design, Autodesk
WHY WORK WITH ME
Bring new eyes to your industry
Regardless of the industry, I'll strive to become an expert, but the kind of expert who always listens sideways and questions the way things have always been done - the foundation of innovation.
I'll help streamline processes and maximize outcomes, because that's just how I work.
My Portfolio in Numbers
50+
CLIENT PROJECTS
8+
DESIGN AWARDS WON
37M$+
INVESTMENT RAISED
30
YEARS
EXPERIENCE