Experience
Design Systems House
Founder & Chief Architect
October 2022 — present
- Launched Design Systems Events (ds.events) meant to promote design systems community with topical events around the world.
- Created CSS Reviews (css.reviews) aimed to help tech hiring managers appropriately assess UI engineering prowess.
- Produced the Wireframe podcast (wireframe.fm) with episodes to help designers and developers disambiguate our massive digital world.
Parsons School of Design
Adjunct Professor, User-Centered Design
January 2020 — present
- Facilitator of the Introduction to UX: User Research Methods course where students work towards preparing a final presentation based on a research topic of their choice using foundational UX best practices.
- Facilitator of the Fundamentals of Interaction Design: Users and Products course where students prepare a working design prototype for the purpose of gathering user feedback.
GoDaddy
Lead Engineer, UX Platform
August 2019 — present
- Thought leader for the roadmap of the organization’s global design system which supports accessibility, localization, compliance, and performance for over 20 million customers each year worldwide.
- Introduced a scalable design framework for all rebrands or future acquisitions allowing for experimentation and rapid appearance updates for hundreds of product resellers.
- Established the ambassador committee to adopt a federated model for contributions and feedback for the design system across the organization with a growing collaborative ecosystem.
Compass
Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems
April 2017 — August 2019
- Founded the design system team through the hands-on hiring of designers, engineers, writers, and program managers to support the needs of the business and our users; both internal and external
- Responsible for all CSS across the platform between the marketing and product web teams to support reusable design and development.
- Enhanced the existing design system workflow to export live production code into reusable design assets (ie. Sketch symbols) to maintain one source of truth between design and development.
Itemize
Lead UI Designer and Developer, Products and Tools
May 2015 — April 2017
- Led the design and engineering of the fully responsive consumer-facing web application using the existing legacy API framework.
- Authored web metrics for user experience feedback and error recording metrics to proactively manage potential development changes.
- Started the company styleguide and curated all company assets and collateral for presentations, sales and marketing.
Recent Projects
Mise en Mode
A year long research and development journey revealing a method to take semantic responsibility away from design tokens. Attempting to demonstrate how we might execute design decisions not through complex token naming exercises, but by burdening rectangles with glorious purpose.
Complementary Space
A provocative take on how we think of space in design. This thesis takes the concepts of Gestalt and pushes them further to identify the why. As digital product designers, why do we choose one amount of space over another? “Because it looks better” is a common response but why does it look better? Perhaps more accurately, why does it look more correct?
Gridless Design
The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working. We’ll take a look at how we got here and how we might change our perspective. Let’s think outside of the grid and allow other guidelines to provide a comprehensive layout.