• Designed zero-to-one products with founders: defining features, interactions, and visuals from a blank slate.

• Built complete UX, and visual design languages for hardware and software, including a symbolic instruction language for a one-button LED device.

• Created brand identities and interaction concepts for early-stage platforms, making complex topics intuitive through clear flows and tactile UI.

• Led user interviews and usability testing, translating unclear or temporal behaviors into simple, learnable experiences.

• Streamlined internal tools and documentation flows to reduce complexity for both technical and non-technical users.

• Produced cohesive brand, illustration, and design assets that supported product launches and pitch-ready storytelling.

· Owned product design for all developer-facing encryption tools.

· Advocated for usability within our command-line interface and its language.

· Facilitated collaboration between Sales and Engineering.

· Researched key product decisions and made recommendations to the C-Suite.

· Built creative, intuitive products in uncharted waters.

· Conducted discovery-phase user research.

· Unified creative and technical collaborators.

· Promoted to Product Manager after only 9 months.

· Defined the company’s visual identity and brand guidelines.

· Art directed, providing feedback and illustrations to our graphic designers and animators.

· Acted as Art Director and Visual Designer, wearing many hats to develop the company’s visual language and brand guidelines.

· Provided mentorship for design intern.

· Designed highly effective graphics for social, email, and print campaigns.

· Illustrated slide decks for presentations by the C-Suite and Head of Product at pivotal conventions and board meetings.

• Researched how interface navigation intersects with accessibility, especially for the blind.

• Visualized complex attentional psychology concepts simply.

• Distilled dense cognitive science papers into UX-applicable principles and frameworks.

• Organized 20 research articles from disparate fields into an engaging narrative structure.

• Synthesized concepts from Film, Stage Magic, and Cognitive Science into a cohesive approach to UX Design.

• Led interaction design for mobile and web interfaces.

• Advocated for the user by conducting research.

• Optimized designs, given implementation constraints.

• Created prototypes to garner stakeholder feedback.

• Concepted and developed the visual design of brands, from style guide to final interface.