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is, frankly, a giant nerd

Hi! I’m Serena. I care about creating well-crafted technology for a more kind and just world. I’ve been making and breaking the web since 1999, and have been plugged into the Matrix ever since.

While my formal training is in physics and mathematics, I love working in the intersections between fields. I’m interested in how the design of ecosystems affect the way we make and consume our technology.

For my day job I work as Staff Interaction Designer on Chrome, leading UX for Chrome Security.

A photograph of me.
Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. João Guimarães Rosa

On my nightstand

Book cover for Amma: a silhouette of a tree against a pastel gradient background.
Amma
Saraid de Silva
Book cover for Debt: The First 5000 Years, showing the book title and author printed on a common store receipt.
Debt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber
Book cover for Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, showing a woodcut print of a wave.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
If we’re not supposed to dance,
Why all this music? Gregory Orr

In my ears

Album art: A translucent vinyl record for Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid Mad City
legends never die
rap is just poetry
A photograph of the view out my partner's window in his hometown
carlos's selection summer 23/24
tunes picked by my boo. his music makes me happy :')
Album art depicting flowing curtains at sunset, with the ocean outside.
they say cyberpunk is a warning not a goal but we love to flirt with doom
a cyberpunk playlist
Album art: a graphic photograph of Thích Quảng Đức performing self-immolation.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine
Album art showing a a woman with an arm around a man, reaching out to the viewer
Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Lana Del Rey
Album art for Frank Ocean's Blonde
Blonde
Frank Ocean
Everything you eat is sunlight made physical.
You are radiant and forever. Welcome to Night Vale