I’m a full-stack product designer who enjoys making complex systems feel simple, usable, and dependable for the people who rely on them every day. My work is grounded in a customer-centric approach and a deep appreciation for how real users actually get their jobs done.
2021 — 2025
Leveraged qualitative and quantitative research findings to co-create a new product vision with cross-functional partners for Applied’s flagship CRM product, Epic. This new future state would allow for a seamless, digital roundtrip renewal experience for brokers and insureds, speeding up the process while reducing the potential for costly errors.
Led research and design efforts to upgrade Applied’s digital data capture product, Indio, to accommodate complex commercial property data capture, enabling the seamless, error-free transfer of data from the Indio insured portal to its corresponding policy in the Epic CRM without brokers having to manually rekey data.
Led the design of an internal tool that allows non-technical team members to easily add validation rules and error messages to insured-facing fields in Applied’s digital data capture product, Indio, resulting in a seamless transfer of policy data between the two platforms for the first time.
In collaboration with cross-functional partners, I spearheaded the research and design effort to enhance Applied’s data capture product, Indio, to allow brokers to send insured policy data to multiple insurance carriers simultaneously, increasing operational efficiency and time to quote.
Designed and validated a new information architecture and navigation structure for Applied’s data capture product, Indio, that would better allow for new features and functionality to be layered in over time, while improving wayfinding and usability for brokers and insureds alike.
San Francisco, California, United States
Indio was acquired by Applied Systems in December of 2019.
Facilitated multiple rounds of research and leveraged findings to inform the design of Indio’s broker-facing form templates feature, giving brokers the ability to hide irrelevant sections of Indio’s digital insurance forms, to mark individual fields or sections as required, and to pre-fill specific fields without having to go through the tedious, time consuming process of configuring a given form prior to each use.
Led research and design efforts to redesign Indio’s broker-facing feature that allows brokers to view year-over-year changes in insured exposure data, thus preventing them from having to perform a manual, time intensive, and error-prone visual diff using multiple browser windows or printouts.
Led research and design efforts for the broker-facing interface for the Indio form library—a repository of nearly 40k digitized commercial insurance forms that brokers use to select various forms for their clients to complete in Indio’s client-facing data collection portal.
Redesigned and validated the digital data capture experience for brokers and insureds to be more scalable, intuitive, and responsive per device type and viewport size.
Partnered with developers to quickly establish a flexible, bare bones design system (and documentation) that accelerated the design and development efficiency of features during the early stage of Indio’s product evolution.
2014 — 2019
San Francisco, CA
Managed a design systems team of two product designers and one prototyper while collaborating with the design systems engineering lead to develop the overall strategy and planning for the project. I also contributed hands-on design solutions for components and patterns, developed and evangelized contribution processes for the broader design and engineering orgs, and produced documentation for the design system at large.
Partnered with the lead accessibility engineer over an 18 month period to ensure Docusign’s customer and signer-facing interfaces adhered to WCAG standards to allow the company to retain strategic enterprise customers such as Microsoft, Apple, and Bank of America.
As a side project I co-founded Docusign’s first design system with a front-end engineer that eventually morphed into an official, funded project with five engineers, three designers, and one prototyper that served to increase designer and developer efficiency and consistency throughout the Docusign product ecosystem.
Collaborated with UX researchers, lead UX designers, product managers, and engineering leads to redesign Docusign’s core e-signature experiences while the engineering team was re-platforming the product’s backend during an aggressive push to capture the e-signature market.
2013 — 2014
San Francisco, CA
In close partnership with UX leads and technical writers, I designed the UI for several Salesforce Marketing Cloud features such as contact management, marketing automation, reporting, and more.
Education
San José State University
Long Beach City College