Sr. Director, Product Design & StrategyWikimedia Foundation
Margeigh Novotny is Sr. Director of Product Design & Strategy at the Wikimedia Foundation - the non-profit organization that runs the hundreds of Wikipedias worldwide. In this role she focuses on the system-level design challenges associated with making all the world’s knowledge accessible to all the world’s people. Prior to joining the WMF, Margeigh lead an a product research and development team at Microsoft, with a focus on the design of intelligent agents that learn and build trust with the users they engage with. Margeigh came to the discipline of user experience design after several years of practice as an architect. She is a co-founder of the collective Fake Art Colony, a group of makers dedicated to the amateur reproduction of modern works of art. She studied architecture and continental philosophy at UC Berkeley, University of Michigan and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.