Design & Research Lead

I help teams turn user insight into shipped experiences—across products, services, and live environments.

With 10+ years leading work at companies like Salesforce, Pinterest, and GoodRx, I specialize in aligning stakeholders, reducing ambiguity, and delivering solutions that drive measurable impact.

What I Do

  • Experience Design

    During my years as a researcher and designer I honed my skills as a experience designer to bring my clients vision to real life. I’ve facilitated and produced events to help generate user growth and empathy in house.

  • Behavioral Research

    With 10 years of research experience I use a variety of methodologies to uncover user’s needs and help teams strategize with these insights.

  • Graphic Design/Creative Direction

    Over the last several years I’ve used my skills in graphic design to help non-profits improve logos, marketing media etc.

Current Work

Learning how to use AI to assist with the Design Process.

How do we keep UX in mind and leverage new AI tools for Design and Research?

Role: UX Researcher / Product Designer
Context: Contract

While working part-time with a design systems team, I identified a gap in their individual contributor capacity for UX execution. The team operates lean but still requires ongoing UX design support. I’ve since begun experimenting with AI-enabled workflows to help accelerate website design work within their new design system.

Currently experimenting with…

  • Introducing AI tools into early-stage design workflows to rapidly generate UI concepts

  • Translating product ideas and research insights into structured prompts

  • Producing multiple design directions within hours instead of days

  • Iterating live with stakeholders to refine concepts in real time

  • Converting promising directions into clear wireframes and flows

Outcomes

  • Significantly reduced time to first concept

  • Increased stakeholder alignment earlier in the process

  • Enabled more iterative, collaborative decision-making

  • Prioritized speed + clarity over polish in early stages

Past Projects

Salesforce.com Design System

Driving Alignment in an Ambiguous Product Space.

Aware Health

UI Designs