Melissa Martin is a San Francisco based designer with expertise in 
interaction design, user experience strategy, graphic design, design 
research and education. She has worked with clients big and small 
designing digital products and services that bring technology, 
aesthetics and functionality together to form humanistic, engaging and 
meaningful experiences. Client list includes Kaiser Permanente, Sony, 
Microsoft, Google, Hyundai, RedCats, California College of the Arts, and
 Pacific Gas & Electric. She also provides graphic design services 
for many San Francisco area food, arts and cultural organizations 
including Anda Piroshki, Inticing Creations, The Grateful Palate, La 
Cocina, and SCRAP Creative Reuse Center.  
Along with her professional practice, she teaches interdisciplinary 
studio courses that focus on addressing social, cultural and 
environmental topics through research-based inquiry and collaborative 
design and art practice. Past courses have involved PG&E on energy 
data visualization, branding and graphic design for budding food 
businesses, culinary storytelling and designing site-specific 
installations to activate and re-engage transitional spaces.