Leading a wireframing workshop
About me
Gabrielle "Gabe" Gutierrez
I believe technology should expand what’s possible and who it’s possible for. Too often, we build intuitive tools without questioning the systems they serve — streamlined for speed, but not designed for the complexity of real lives. My work explores how emerging tech can be used with more care, more context, and a deeper understanding of who it impacts.
That perspective started early. I was eight when I first watched Minority Report.
Screens responded to gestures. Ads spoke directly to you. Interfaces hovered in public space as if they belonged there — frictionless, ever-present. But then came the undercity. Tom Cruise running through a world left behind: crumbling walls, rusted infrastructure, people forgotten by progress.
I turned to my uncle and asked, “Why does everything look so advanced, but some people still live like that?”
I design to close that gap — not by rejecting innovation, but by redirecting it toward more thoughtful, human futures.
Education
University of Southern California
MS Integrated Design Business & Technology
California State University, Long Beach
MA Human Experience Design Interactions
Microsoft Software Systems Academy
Cloud Application Software Development
University of California, Irvine
BA Studio Art, BA Anthropology
Work Experience
Sama Portraits
Multimedia Designer
Immersive Design Research Lab
Graduate Research Assistant
Microsoft
Technical Support Engineer
US Air Force
Staff Sergeant