About
A product design leader who builds teams, systems, and outcomes.

The things that are hardest to do are usually the things most worth doing.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I lead product design at the intersection of strategy, research, and craft. Over 15 years, I've built and directed teams across UX research, information architecture, design, and content strategy, working across enterprise software, SaaS products, and complex digital transformation efforts.
I believe the best design work comes from genuine collaboration. When teams develop a shared understanding of the business, the users, and the constraints they're working within, the evidence to make good decisions tends to emerge naturally. My job is to build the environment where that happens, and to connect it to outcomes the business actually cares about.
I'm actively engaged in how AI is reshaping design practice, not as a curiosity, but as a working problem. I'm currently building a set of agents and governance policies for how our team approaches research synthesis, design system development, and tool selection. The goal is straightforward: enhance what skilled designers can do, not automate them out of the work. That same thinking informed my work helping John Deere develop the agent authoring UI and framework that underpins their internal AI tooling.
Design Principles
01
Clarity Over Complexity
Reduce before you add. The simplest solution that solves the real problem is almost always the right one.
02
Systems Before Screens
A well-designed system makes the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. Get the architecture right first, the interface follows.
03
Understanding Before Solutions
The best outcomes come from teams that deeply understand the problem they're solving, not just the brief they were handed.
Tools & Expertise
- AI enabled Workflows
- Figma
- Design Systems
- Information Architecture
- UX Research
- Accessible Design
- Product Strategy
- 0-to-1 Product Development
- Content Strategy
- Agile
- Lean
- Hotjar
- HEAP
- FullStory
- Optimizely
- GA4
Results
$15M+
Annual revenue driven across design engagements at Kin & Carta / Valtech
47%
Increase in training plan sales at TrainingPeaks following UX practice buildout
16 months to weeks
Claim-to-benefit processing time reduced for the State of Kansas workers compensation system
5,000+
First-year users for Aspect Avy, launched within a 6-month timeline and $70K budget