Role
I’m a designer with a focus on clarity, cohesion, and user gratification. I bring an empathic sensibility to my highly iterative design approach. Testing and metrics help vet my UX decisions. Visual design finesse comes from a background in fine arts—skills that I maintain and evolve. I most recently applied my experience as an IXD at Google and Optum, crafting components and elevating aesthetics to improve UX and user engagement.
Specialties
UX/UI, visual systems, pattern libraries, rapid prototyping, motion studies, illustration, branding, and copy writing. Secondary skills: video, photography, animation, light 3-D, light coding, and usability testing/research.
Partial client/partner list
Google, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, Ebay, Starbucks, Amazon, SONY, HP, Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HBO, Warby Parker, and the late, great David Bowie (back in my VR days—a virtual museum of his paintings)
Adjacent
Have published a few magazine articles, write short stories and personal essays, and currently am shopping around a children’s book I wrote and illustrated. Photography–wise, was awarded an artist-in-residency, received some awards, and have sold some work. A background in architecture (UC Berkeley) informs my framing of shape, shadow, and building compositions.
That time I was on Jimmy Kimmel because of a poem I wrote and a foot I sculpted.
I create tunes if there’s even more time.