Dana Elkis-Blanks
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Multi-disciplinary designer with extensive experience in visual systems and user interface design, specializing in product design for AI and AR interactions, personal data collection, and experiences driven by sensor data. Dedicated to creating intuitive and engaging digital experiences that translate complex technologies into meaningful user interactions. Proven track record of leading design initiatives that drive user engagement and enhance platform functionality. Passionate about leveraging emerging technologies to push the boundaries of design, with a strong foundation in graphic design and a Master's degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Curretnly working for Meta, Reality labs > Projectaria.com


Meta. Project AriaProduct design, current job
 As a Project designer at the intersection of AI and AR, I designed wearing many hats for a research platform—orchestrating comprehensive design processes that drove user growth from 500 to over 10,000, establishing a cohesive design system through a centralized Figma repository, creating specialized interfaces that accelerated research workflows and different eco-systems, implementing agile methodologies for rapid two-week delivery cycles, and pioneering R&D initiatives about the future of AI assistants and personal data collections through compelling prototypes that shaped the platform's evolution while enabling successful B2B expansion


Cuttlebase
Research, web UX,  web UI, Design direction
Cuttlebase is a scientific toolkit for the dwarf cuttlefish, sepia bandensis. Cuttlebase host a set of tools for the scientific community: a brain atlas, body atlas, developmental staging series and genome.

As the UI/UX designer for Cuttlebase, I transformed complex scientific research on the dwarf cuttlefish into an accessible, visually rich digital ecosystem where researchers can utilize powerful scientific tools and the public can explore interactive experiences—bridging the gap between specialized knowledge and public engagement.


DADA GALA: logo animationDesign and motion design: Dana Elkis, Studio Michal Sahar
 Tel Aviv Museum of Art GALA Logo celebrating the DADA Movement’s 100th birthday. Inspired by dadaist posters, this video installation was made with different letters size, while the letters movement works like a motor/mechanism that breaks its structure and comes back each time into order. 


‘Hagilda’ type foundryResearch, UX, UI, Design: Dana Elkis
Hagilda.co.il
As the UI/UX designer for Hagilda, I crafted an intuitive digital environment that serves both as an essential resource for designers to discover their typographic needs and as an elegant showcase for Hebrew-English-Arabic fonts—directly contributing to the platform's mission of transforming Israeli design culture through accessible, high-quality typography.


Venice Biennale of Architecture, Israeli pavilion.
Senior designer: Dana Elkis, Michal sahar studio


In Statu Quo: Structures of Negotiation. Theme design, Exhibition design and Video Design for the Protocols of space and time of The church of the holy sepulchre



The design lab - ITP
Founder, Mentor and Designer

As the founder of 'the design lab' during my ITP/NYU Residency, I established a transformative student-run creative hub that continues to thrive today—creating an enduring ecosystem where ITP/NYU students access design mentorship, develop technical skills, and collaborate in an innovative space that has become a cornerstone of the university's design community. While establishing the lab operations, I created a small visual tool kit, Including: a logotype, color pallete and applications.




SUPERBRIGHT 
Lead designer: Dana Elkis, Design systems international

Communicating immersive capability for VR studio Superbright’s new visual identity and website. Grounded in historical reference, the typographic texture and imaginative renderings communicate a novel way of building space in the virtually real.
www.superbright.me




UNIT.la Design lead, Design system internatioanl unit.la
A new visual identity for the latin American service design firm UNIT, highlighting its impactful strategy to reinvent the organizations, services and businesses that will define what is to come.







Adjacent - Issue 7, Feeling
Design directors: Dana Elkis, Emily Lin

As Design Director for Adjacent, ITP's emerging media journal, We re-imagined the digital reading experience by creating a design where dynamic 3D elements respond to user scrolling—transforming the static concept of 'feeling' into an interactive visual journey where flexible blobs shift and headlines reorient along changing axes, embodying the elusive nature of emotions through responsive design




Adah financieras Design lead: Dana Elkis, Design systems international

As lead designer, I crafted a vibrant, approachable brand identity that transforms the often intimidating world of personal finance into an engaging ecosystem where women confidently manage their daily finances and build lasting financial well-being—creating visual touchpoints that resonate with users across the platform's educational courses, practical tools, and community activities.