Experience

  • Product Design @ Aura Home

    Currently shipping experiences for the internet's favorite digital frame.

  • Design @ Magic+Might

    Designed mobile app experiences for self-driving cars.

  • Engineering @ Galactic

    Built a crypto off-ramp product for web3 users.

  • PM @ PayPal / Braintree

    Launched a new version of the Braintree merchant dashboard.

  • Design @ Modest

    Designed commerce experiences for mobile checkout (acq by PayPal).

  • Design @ dscout

    Designed and built the first major iterations of dscout's user research platform.

  • IXD @ gravitytank

    Designed future experiences for the consumer electronics space.

What I've built

Aura Frames

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  • iOS
  • Android
  • Hardware
  • Consumer-facing

I design features for the Aura app and on-frame experience, focusing on intuitive, family-friendly ways to share and enjoy memories.

Skyteller @ Galactic

Skyteller animation
  • Mobile web
  • Crypto
  • web3

Skyteller started as a dream to turn crypto into cash in just one click, and to make the whole crypto world more accessible and user-friendly. We built a bridge to your bank, allowing you to off-ramp straight from your wallet or your personal Skyteller off-ramp contract.

Braintree Control Panel @ Braintree / PayPal

  • Web
  • Enterprise

As product manager for merchant experience, I led the redesign of Braintree's payments dashboard. This project was a multi-year, cross-organizational effort that affected every stakeholder in the organization and Braintree's global merchant base.

How I think

These articles showcase my passion for various aspects of the design process and my thinking as a designer, product manager, and engineer.

NYT: Connections

Reverse Engineering: Connections

I break down an existing experience with a technical focus.

Read on Notion

Daily Dispatch

Over-Engineered: Daily Dispatch

I design a hypothetical app end-to-end based on a workflow problem.

Read on Notion

How I work

I'm a tool-agnostic builder who uses AI and adaptable workflows across the product lifecycle. The groups below show how I move from insight → prototype → integration → iteration.

Research & Insight

Understand people and problems; transform signals into direction.

  • User interviews
  • Usability testing
  • Behavioral analytics
  • Analytics & instrumentation (Mixpanel, Metabase)
  • Research analysis
  • Heuristic evaluation
  • AI-assisted research synthesis

Design & Prototyping

Explore solutions fast; clarify structure, interactions, and systems.

  • Information architecture
  • Interaction design
  • Design systems
  • Generative prototyping
  • High-fidelity prototyping
  • Prototyping tools (Figma, ProtoPie, FigJam, Play, Spline)
  • Conversational UX

Engineering & Integration

Make it real quickly; connect services and production-adjacent code.

  • Frontend prototyping (React, CSS, HTML, JS)
  • Rapid prototyping with code
  • APIs & integrations
  • AI + developer workflows
  • AI workflows
  • Prompt engineering

Measurement & Iteration

Ship, learn, and improve with experiments and data.

  • Growth experimentation
  • Experimentation frameworks
  • Data-driven design (SQL/Looker/Metabase)
  • Automated journey mapping

Foundations & Ways of Working

How I operate across teams and stages.

  • Systems thinking
  • Cross-functional facilitation
  • End-to-end product ownership
  • AI-enhanced documentation
  • AI research co-pilot