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Nicole is hardworking and thorough, with the demonstrated ability to take ownership and guide projects to successful outcomes. Nicole was able to shift through ambiguity and organize insights in a way that elevated the expectations within the organization around the quality of work and business impacts this intern program could deliver. Throughout this project, Nicole displayed an excellent team attitude through collaboration with her colleagues and owning the creation of research and pitch decks to senior leadership.

I had the pleasure of hiring and mentoring Nicole as an intern at VSP Global Innovation Center and then working with her when she was hired as a full-time Interaction Designer. In addition to the myriad of skills: design research, qualitative and quantitative protocol creation, synthesis, journey mapping, digital prototyping, visualization and storytelling, Nicole is a proactive, thorough and dependable collaborator. The success of the intern project moving forward into a cross-enterprise project is evidence of how she is able to work from exploration to execution.

Humble, succinct and thoughtful are what come to mind when I think about Nicole. Being extremely comprehensive whilst having zero fluff is second nature to her. Hard-work, discipline, meticulousness and simplicity is a substantial part of her personality. And so, her work inevitably carries all of those attributes. Nicole thrives under uncertainty, which is fundamental to solving any design problem. That combined with her passion to improve customers' / users' life puts her design solutions in an entirely different league.

Nicole joined Novelty in a pre-seed stage when she was required to work a lot on building the design of the app form scratch. She did three things exceptionally well and exceeded all expectations: 1) She was able to understand what we had before and what we were building immediately. 2) She built the whole new version of the app without any delay in time. Work was always done with extraordinary quality. 3) She brought her vision of how things should look, and it was beneficial. It was enough to say what I was expecting from her to see perfect execution and creativity.

Nicole has shown great ability to work on the marketing research project. She is able to attend meetings and complete assigned tasks timely. During the conversations, as a designer, she was able to combine her own experience and put forward unique thoughts on the direction of contemporary art market. During this internship, she made a detailed and complete report by researching data and searching media information, which was a great job. We look forward to working with her again if there is chance.