About

Identifying the crossover of Strategic Product Designer and Ethical Innovator

Rives Matson is a Philadelphia-based strategic systems designer who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design with a focus on Industrial Design, working in national security, sustainable products, and human-centered design. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with and designed for incubators, think tanks, startups, universities, national labs, and nonprofits. Designing with a systems focus and ethical approach, Rives utilizes strategy and user research to outline the goals and define the problem space of each project to find the most impactful, elegant solution to every problem.

She is currently attending the University of Pennsylvania’s Integrated Product Design Master’s program to explore the intersections between design, engineering, and business to further advance her multidisciplinary abilities for spaces of innovation.