Hybrid at heart
I'm a product designer also known as Product Designer Interactive Designer Web Designer Graphic Designer User Interface Designer Design Engineer Front-end Designer Web Master Front-end Developer User Interface Engineer Problem Solver with roots in both design and code. Whether I'm redesigning a logistics app, organizing a family dashboard, or building a design system, I'm driven by the same question: How could this work better?
My side quest
A family dashboard, designed and coded for real, the same way I work with clients: design something true, build it for real, keep the two from drifting apart. He runs product. I'm documenting the whole thing as we go.
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A few things I've built lately, and what they did for the teams running them.
Built a nonprofit's non-technical team a Claude skill to safely fix their own design system, five years after I built it.
Read about itPicked up an in-progress email system for an international nonprofit in 2025 and shipped one integrated design system its team could run.
Read about itReworked a logistics startup's trucking payments app around how carriers actually work, conducting the AI-assisted production rework. It's live now, rolling out to users.
Read about itDesigned, facilitated, and reported moderated usability studies with real drivers: the evidence that shaped what shipped, and got a founder-favorite feature cut when the data didn't back it.
Read about itFrom a Fortune 500 railroad to early-stage startups and nonprofits, often for years at a time.
“You're very talented and easy to work with. You served as a guide for us, always leading us to the best place for our goals.”
“Your support and design have been so helpful in getting these new content blocks ready.”
“You were able to develop a product for us that improved our presence online.”
“The Loup website is doing great. We just had a call with our SEO firm yesterday and traffic to the site is definitely growing... Thanks so much for looking out for us. You truly are the BEST!”
“I appreciate the nimbleness and responsiveness.”
“She and her team did an excellent job creating our new timeline site! I will definitely be back with more work!”
I use AI wherever it helps me deliver better or faster, as an accelerator, not an autopilot.
Read about itWhere you can see the thinking, not just the result: the systems, the calls, and what they did for the teams.
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A trucking payments app that had grown cluttered: reworked around the data carriers actually scan for, validated with real drivers, and shipped with AI carrying the build.
Read the case studyGeneration
I rebuilt an international nonprofit's course system so people who aren't designers could run it themselves.
Read the case studyOccasional write-ups on what I'm learning as I build.
September 2026
Five years of mentoring career-changers taught me that coding is really just learning the dance of problem-solving.
Read the full articleJune 2026
My son has an amazing imagination. He also loves video games. Today we brought his own video game to life.
Read the full articleMay 2026
My 8-year-old designed his own progress bar. It's so much better than what I was planning.
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