2025 — 2026
Sole owner of Nextdoor’s cross-platform design system (iOS, Android, Web), supporting both consumer and enterprise products across all product feature teams
Shape cross-platform strategy for the design system to support native platform paradigms, guiding the
adoption of Liquid Glass on iOS and Material 3 Expressive on Android
Leverage AI tools to generate code-accurate design system components to enhance design and
engineering collaboration
Led a full visual refresh of Nextdoor’s product suite in alignment with a major product strategy shift. Partnered with engineers to ship 60+ updated components across 3 platforms in 9 months, and increased design system component adoption from 68% to 74%. Maintained core company metrics while increasing positive user sentiment about Nextdoor’s design by 30%
Published and maintained Figma library with 700+ components using variables, modes, component
properties, and component variants, which supports a team of 20+ designers with 20,000 inserts/week
2021 — 2025
Launched simplified navigation system on native mobile and desktop increasing business page claims by 70% and group posting by 12%, boosting ad revenue by 10%
Defined and led adoption of design tokens to support dark mode theming across platforms, resolving 500+ dark mode tickets in a quarter
Conducted a comprehensive accessibility audit across Nextdoor, identifying and remediating 100+ WCAG non-compliant issues within one quarter
Built roadmaps by proactively identifying needs from the design organization and end users that
contribute towards company objectives
Documented navigation guidelines as a part of the design system website, using prototypes to
demonstrate the expected experience
2020 — 2021
Lead designer for notifications. UI improvements on mobile and desktop led to a 10% increase in DAU and 15% increase in sessions in one quarter
Previously on paid products for small to medium sized businesses. Gather feedback on early product
vision for B2B self serve ad platform using high fidelity prototypes
Run feedback sessions with small business owners to determine subscription features and optimal pricing
San Francisco
Lead designer on data layer for AWS’s low code app builder
Redefine data layer to be represented by a database instead of a spreadsheet, leading to
5x improvement in customer time to create the first app
Creator and owner of design system library, work with 6 UI Platform engineers to ship
reusable components
Document UX patterns and component usage, raising the consistency and quality of
product
Education
2013 — 2017
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree
2013 — 2017