About
I'm a multidisciplinary design leader who's been building products, brands, teams, and companies from 0 to 1 for over a decade.
Currently, I lead design at Syndicate, a startup leveraging crypto to power new kinds of communities at enterprise scale.
Work Experience
Working with clients to deliver full-stack design, strategic consulting, and brand creative direction.
Decentralized investing protocol and social network backed by Andreessen Horowitz, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Table Management, Variant, Electric Capital, Delphi Ventures, CoinFund, and 300+ top founders and angels.
Led design for new products and brand initiatives at Proxy, a series-B startup transforming the way we interact with physical space.
As Eight’s founding designer, led interdisciplinary design across the company during critical series-C growth and COVID. Created and led an interdisciplinary design team, integrating digital, brand, print, packaging, growth, industrial, and systems design together.
Founded a design-led diversity and inclusion startup, building a research-backed SaaS B2B web and mobile app. Led strategy, research, and product and brand design.
Projects
Led design of a multiplatform app experience for a high-growth text-to-speech app during a critical point of growth. Reached #1 in its category on the iOS App Store. Since then, Speechify has been featured in numerous publications and has been used to listen to over 17B words.
Experimental, low-interface interactions for Smart Lock, a better way to handle authentication and identity that relies on presence, not passwords
Enhanced user trust for over a billion MAUs across Google products through improved cross-platform design consistency at sign in/up
As the first designer, led early exploration to define a brand for Cora, a new vision of women's health centered around organic products and social justice.
Designed initial strategy, creative direction, and interactions for GE's new smart oven and Wink, Quirky's new smart home/IoT platform.
Led a small team in building an ecommerce app offering photo stories that let users instantly buy the fashion & lifestyle items featured.
Side Projects
Collecting resources across design, product, and more.
Helped raise more than $47M in under a week to buy a copy of the constitution, mostly from people who had never contributed to a DAO before.
Led design organization partnerships, expanding and accelerating ADPList's mission to build the future of design mentorship, education, and community. Helped drive ADPList's first round of funding.
Speaking
Volunteering
Education
"Emotionally Fluent Leadership"