Experience
Spotify
Sr. Product Designer
June 2022 - Current
Product design, design leadership
product design for Spotify Developer Experience (PDX)
high fidelity designs: visual design, copy, animations, functional prototypes
system design: IA diagrams, user journeys, wireframes, user stories
design leadership: mentoring of junior designers, program management, design recruitment
Highlights:
Successfully shipped the first commercial projects for Spotify Backstage: commercial Plugins, Soundcheck self-serve and Sounchcheck reporting
Introduced an effective design sprint model to a large product area, enabling them to ship regularly and on schedule
Introduced several enterprise design patterns to our design system allowing other designers to create creation and reporting projects
Opentrons
Sr. Product Designer
October 2021 - June 2022
Product design, design leadership
product design for Opentrons robotics division, with focus on the desktop app
high fidelity designs: visual design, copy, animations, functional prototypes
system design: IA diagrams, user journeys, wireframes, user stories
design leadership: mentoring of junior designers, program management, design recruitment
Highlights:
Successfully convinced the company to abandon their “just in time” design practice and pivot to a more forward-facing design approach. This allowed us to collect user insights and helped us build a user-centric roadmap.
Quickly gathered the services the company offered in four different apps into a single mobile-first design that the team could organize their roadmap around.
LinkedIn.com
Sr. Product Designer
April 2015 - October 2021
Product design, user research
product design for LinkedIn’s Developer Solutions, Campaign Manager, Pages, and Lynda.com.
high fidelity designs: visual design, copy, animations, functional prototypes
system design: IA diagrams, user journeys, wireframes, user stories
design research: moderated facilitation, discussion guides, UX research reports
Highlights:
As the sole designer responsible for LinkedIn‘s Developer Solutions, I ideated, designed, and shipped every feature on the site. This included an overhaul of the IA and content area, which I got prioritized and shipped
On Campaign Manager, I led efforts for the website tracking suite, which I got prioritized and shipped. My work on this resulted in a 46% increase in feature adoption over the course of four months
Art.com
Sr. Product Designer
December 2013 - March 2015
Product design, user research
UX design for e-commerce: web and iOS
prototyping: wireframes, mocks, and functional prototypes
design research: unmoderated user testing
Highlights:
Designed and shipped two iOS e-commerce apps, Switchart for print subscription, and Art.com x Bed Bath & Beyond in-store retail apps. Switchart was featured in the app store at the time of its release.
Education
California College of the Arts -Master of Fine Arts
Combined degree work with internship as an exhibition designer
San Francisco Art Institute -Bachelor of Fine Arts
Included in Catharine Clark Gallery Introductions exhibition
Received the Merit Scholarship award