About
Eleven years of product design, most of it spent on software where the stakes are quietly high.
A short version
I have been designing software for eleven years, most of it on products where the stakes are quietly high — money moving, health being tracked, someone doing their job for the ninth hour. That work taught me to care less about how a screen looks in a portfolio and more about how it behaves at 4pm on a bad Tuesday.
I started at Sundial as the first designer, spent four years at Overtone on consumer apps, then led payments design at Harbor through the years it grew from a startup to an institution. Since 2019 I have worked independently, usually embedded with one team at a time.
I write here when something is worth thinking through properly. I read a great deal about how things are built — bridges and books as much as software — and most of what I believe about interfaces I stole from other disciplines.
- 11
- Years designing products
- 40+
- Shipped product launches
- 6
- Design systems in production
- 3
- Teams built from scratch
Where I have worked
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2019 — now
Independent product designer — Own practice
Product and systems work for teams from seed stage to public.
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2016 — 2019
Design lead, Payments — Harbor
Built the design team from two to nine and shipped the merchant platform.
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2014 — 2016
Senior product designer — Overtone
Consumer audio apps across iOS, Android, and the web.
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2012 — 2014
Product designer — Sundial
First design hire. Learned most of this the hard way.
What I work in
Tools matter less than people think, but these are the ones I reach for.
- Figma
- Interface and systems
- Linear
- Everything that has a deadline
- Cursor
- Prototypes and front-end
- Obsidian
- Research and writing
- Rive
- Motion and micro-interaction
- Notion
- Documentation and handover
Tell me what you are building.
If you have a product that is nearly right and stuck, or a blank page and a deadline, I would like to hear about it. A first call is thirty minutes and costs nothing.
Open for two projects this spring