Cross-Functional Leadership: Directed a team of designers and developers through a rigorous 6-week UX/UI sprint to concept, design, and launch a functional web application.

End-to-End UX/UI Ownership: Led the entire design lifecycle for Pent Up, from conducting user research and persona development to crafting high-fidelity interactive prototypes in Figma.

Engineering Partnership & Handoff: Facilitated seamless design-to-development collaboration by establishing documentation standards and conducting regular design reviews to ensure technical feasibility.

Systemic Consistency: Developed a project-specific design system with reusable components, ensuring a cohesive user experience and accelerating the development timeline.

Research-Driven Iteration: Managed user testing sessions and synthesized feedback to identify friction points, directly influencing UI refinements to improve usability and accessibility.

Lead designer for Unearthed, a student-run children’s magazine published each semester.

Recruit, interview, and mentor a rotating team of ~12 designers per semester; provide feedback and revisions across all design stages.

Teach Adobe Illustrator workshops and guide designers in creating professional-quality spreads and illustrations.

Compile, edit, and finalize magazines for both print and digital publication.

Design original spreads, covers, and interactive pages; create merchandise artwork for hoodies, tote bags, stickers, and magnets.

Attend distribution events with local elementary and middle schools, reading magazines to children and engaging with community programs.

Information Architecture & Database Design: Leading the end-to-end redesign of the club’s digital archive, developing a scalable taxonomy to organize a diverse plant database for optimal searchability and user discovery.

Creative Direction & Visual Identity: Conceptualized and executed a unique "retro-inspired" design system, balancing nostalgic aesthetics with modern usability standards to create an engaging, community-focused web experience.

User-Centric Navigation: Engineered a seamless browsing flow that simplifies complex botanical data, reducing cognitive load for members through intuitive filtering and categorized digital archiving.

Full-Cycle Design Ownership: Managing the complete product lifecycle from initial wireframing and prototyping in Figma to final handoff, exercising full creative autonomy over the platform's visual language and interaction patterns.

Rapid Iteration & Prototyping: Utilizing high-fidelity interactive prototypes to test navigation layouts, ensuring the "retro" interface remains accessible and responsive across mobile and desktop devices.