I'm a product designer and motion designer in Oakland, CA.
For over a decade, I've served as a product design leader, cultivating an obsessive focus on team communication and a passion for the open web.
Independent designer, writer and animator. Clients include Pacific Life, Kiva.org, Yoga Alliance, and the State of California Office of Digital Innovation.
I designed the first form on SF.gov, the city's new website: combining hundreds of form fields from five agencies into a streamlined permit application.
As part of this work, I led product design for the team’s internal form-builder. I also built a separate, Jekyll-based rapid prototyping tool for larger and more complex government forms.
When I first joined, the team was about to issue an RFP for a city-wide design system. I advised leadership on the work required to do so, and advocated for what should be done in-house. I also converted two component libraries to Fractal and ranked among their top contributors.
I spent a good amount of my time on mentorship and facilitation. I gave presentations on critique and how to self-document your daily work. I also led workshops to establish the team's design principles, and started an “Org Design for Design Orgs” book club to foster discussions about culture.
On top of my responsibilities as a designer, I was promoted to serve as Screendoor's product lead. I defined and prioritized all product work, regularly meeting with customers and colleagues to inform my decision-making.
I also facilitated workshops to establish our team's core values, and created a structured hiring pipeline based on Project Include's recommendations.
I was the first designer at this remote govtech startup. We mostly worked on Screendoor, a shared inbox for online form submissions.
I created and taught a outcomes-oriented design process optimized for remote teams. I also designed, wrote documentation for, and refactored our CSS into a modular design system.
Alere ACS built an electronic health record (EHRs) and patient portal for the iPad and the web.
I led prototyping, UI animation, design QA, and HTML / CSS development on most user-facing features. The team grew from 30 to 150 during my tenure, so I gained a lot of practice in these areas.
To teach my skills to the rest of the company, I presented to colleagues on Git, UI animation, and component-driven design.
I also led design on a few EHR features, and assembled an ad hoc team to advocate for a responsive web redesign of our patient portal.
