I help companies scale and achieve better outcomes for (and with) their customers.
I strive to make the world (and its wide web) a more inclusive, human place. My happy place is diving deep into challenging problems to find solutions that improve the lives of people around the world — especially the members of my extremely talented team 😎
Selected case studies
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Asana Goals 2-year vision
After the Goals MVP was released, I led the design of a product vision that helped the team move from a short-term roadmap driven by feature requests to an opinionated, multi-year outlook.
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Asana Goals
Over six months, I coordinated efforts across myself, five product and engineering squads, several other Senior+ Product Designers, and two Brand Designers to design and launch a new product area.
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The new Etsy Stats
After the unsuccessful launch of Search Analytics, Etsy leadership invested more in our work the following year. This time, we were able to fully deliver on the promise to get Stats right.
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Etsy Search Analytics
Etsy’s Stats are a critical part of the product for sellers. In 2017, I was tasked with an effort to make Stats more useful to sellers. This post will explain the process behind my first iteration.
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Sales and coupons on Etsy
Etsy realized they were missing a huge opportunity to natively incorporate sales into the platform. This project was a massive undertaking that involved many departments across the company.
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Etsy Payments
Etsy created a new payments service in order to make their purchase experience more trustworthy, seamless, and secure. I worked with a nimble team to make the announcement and user experience successful.
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SoundCloud Go purchase experience
The subscriptions team put me in charge of creating the architecture for the payment experience and designing the checkout experience on web and Android.
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SoundCloud Google Cast Receiver
I volunteered to design SoundCloud's Google Cast receiver app after a coworker built a prototype. The result is a feature many people love.
Upcoming talks
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SaaS Design Strategy Intensive: Stop Being a Paintbrush, Start Being a Visioner
In this workshop, you’ll learn and practice techniques to become a more strategic SaaS designer by identifying and navigating political roadblocks that keep many designers stuck in the ideological playpen at SaaS companies. You’ll form alliances with designers from across the industry in the fight for better product decisions and higher-quality user experiences.
Want to talk?
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