---
title: "Marissa Epstein"
url: "/about/marissa-epstein"
type: bio
date: 2022-09-23
updated: 2025-03-10
---

# Marissa Epstein

#  Marissa Epstein 

 Senior UX Strategist

 Providence, RI

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Marissa Epstein, CPACC, has been drinking the design Kool-Aid ever since she was a nerdy art kid in sunny south Florida.

Her work has run the gamut, from packaging brands like Wrigley and Kraft (Macaroni & Cheese) to creating thoughtful websites and experiences for lean startups, beefy publishers, and much in between. Marissa brings a passion for responsive design systems and obsessive attention to detail to every project. Before joining the Lullabot team, Marissa wore many hats as an Art Director for an interactive creative agency: ideation, marketing, branding, information architecture, UI/UX design, managing a design team, and project management.

While at Lullabot, Marissa contributed to user experience, design, and content strategy projects for clients such as Georgia Public Broadcasting, Digital Services Georgia (Georgia.Gov), Harvard Library, Pantheon, and the Grammys. She approaches work from both a strategist and designer perspective, leading teams from facilitating discovery workshops to crafting accessible, reusable systems. She loves to plan and document team projects, from markers to interactive diagrams. Marissa is a seasoned speaker, writer, and certified accessibility professional.

Marissa resides in a Cape Cod home in Providence, RI, with her humongous dog, Elwood. Besides embarking on adventures in her tiny city (probably in the pursuit of good food), Marissa can be found at design & strategy events, concerts, or reading non-fiction.

 

 ##  Did you know? 

 Marissa has a designer vinyl toy collection that has taken over her home. She gave up counting toys after collecting 400.

 

  ##  More about Marissa 

###  Drupal Contributions: 

 

- [Breadcrumb Tweaks](https://www.drupal.org/project/breadcrumb_tweaks), credited on 1 issue
- [DrupalCon Portland 2022](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalcon_portland_2022), credited on 1 issue (Speaker)
- [Drupal GovCon 2021](https://www.drupal.org/project/govcon), credited on 1 issue (Speaker)
- [DrupalCon Global 2020](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalcon_global), credited on 1 issue (Speaker)
- DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015 Speaker
- [Drupal Camp Asheville](https://www.drupal.org/project/dcavl), credited on 1 issue (2020 Speaker)
- [Midwest Drupal Camp (MidCamp)](https://www.drupal.org/project/midcamp), credited on 1 issue (2020 Speaker)
- New England Drupal Camp (NedCamp) 2019 Speaker

###  Projects Worked on at Lullabot: 

 

- [Georgia Public Broadcasting](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/georgia-public-broadcasting)
- [Digital Services Georgia](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/govhub-building-georgias-digital-future)
- [AIChE](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/aiche)
- [Pantheon](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/pantheon)
- [Georgia.gov](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/govhub-building-georgias-digital-future)
- [Mass.gov ](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/massgov-das)
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation
- [Pantheon](https://www.lullabot.com/our-work/pantheon)
- The Recording Academy (Grammys)
- NewsBank

###  Education & Certifications: 

 

- Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
- Bachelor of Science (with honors), University of Cincinnati (Major in Graphic Design, Minor in Psychology)
- UX and Content Strategy for Drupal (Evolving Web certification)
- Design Forward RI (Advanced certification: Design Strategy)

 

  ##  Featured resources ... 

 [  More ...   ](/resources) 

 [### It Depends: A Website Context Primer 

  Read    ](/articles/it-depends-website-context-primer) 

 [### Orientation and Wayfinding: A Quick Overview 

  Read    ](/articles/orientation-and-wayfinding-quick-overview) 

 [### Paper Prototyping for Websites and Digital Products 

  Read    ](/articles/why-we-advocate-paper-prototyping-digital-content) 

  ##  Featured work ... 

 [  See all our work   ](/our-work) 

- [ ###  AIChE 
    
     A Sustainable Design System for a Global Professional Association

    
     AIChE The Global Home of Chemical Engineers, logo        

    

     

    
       ](/our-work/aiche)
- [ ###  Pantheon 
    
     An Amazing, Fast New Site for an Amazingly Fast Hosting Platform

    
     Pantheon 

    

     

    
       ](/our-work/pantheon)
- [ ###  Spredfast 
    
     Showcasing ‘Smart Social’ for Technology's Biggest Event

    

     
    
       ](/our-work/spredfast)