Journey
I make systems work for humans, at every altitude.
Fifteen years of it: founding and leading design teams, and getting hands-on with the technical work when that's what's needed. I build coherence into products and portfolios, and the durable foundations that both teams and agentic workflows can build on.
UX Researcher
2011–2014
Senior UX Manager
2018–2021
Driving product coherence at scale
When teams build independently, products fragment. I align them around the user's journey so the whole feels like one product, and holds together as a system teams and their agents can build on.
Aligning teams through an IA redesign
Unified seven teams' fragmented B2B app behind one information architecture. ~20% more users reached their intended flows, and the IA outlived me by years.
Shaping strategy through design vision
Design can show the future, not just argue about it. I use vision and prototypes to steer strategy and align leadership.
Embedding discovery into product decisions
Good products come from understanding, not assumptions. I make discovery rigorous enough that the understanding lasts, becoming context the whole team and their agents can act on.
Building and scaling design teams
A good team makes everyone around it better. I build teams with clear growth, embedded practice, and deliberate org design.
Foundations
Earlier, as a UX researcher at Prezi, I built the craft this all rests on, and a habit of learning in public.