Freddie is a queer social app and digital third space for the sapphic & trans community. Inspired by the early internet, it combines nostalgic features with modern social tools:

Feed & Personals – a mix of regular posts and retro-inspired personals (like newspaper classifieds).

Customizable Profiles – reminiscent of MySpace, letting users express themselves fully.

Events Hub – both community-driven event posts and aggregated local happenings.

Spaces – topic-based micro-communities where members can gather by shared interests.

Bootstrapping with a small team (one engineer and one marketing partner) while shaping the product, design, and community strategy.

Joined OpenSea through the acquisition of Gem NFT marketplace. Since then, I’ve helped reimagine OpenSea from both a product and design systems perspective:

Designed & shipped OpenSea Pro – designed for advanced NFT traders, leading the design of critical trading workflows.

Redesigning OpenSea – in Oct 2023, partnered with one other designer to rebuild OpenSea’s design system and core product surfaces from the ground up.

Major Surfaces – worked across profile, collection pages (items, traits, holders, etc), token trading and Creator Studio.

AI & MCP Experiments – currently exploring AI-powered interfaces that use OpenSea MCP data to provide traders with a conversational UI for insights, transactions, and asset management.

The OpenSea design team is just two people. Emphasis on this.

We were acquired by OpenSea. Always a Gem Maxi.

Lead the team that: