About
An accomplished design leader with a background leading AI and mobile-first products using human-centered design practices and product-led growth.
Projects
Designed and built an AI-first video conferencing product during the pandemic. Capturing the key moments from your calls and summarizing them.
Work Experience
I co-founded and led design for this AI2 startup, focusing on improving note taking and team productivity using NLP. I led design, customer discovery and product-led growth efforts. Plus co-leading all our product development, fundraising efforts, pitch decks, demos, etc.
I led product design and development at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), an AI-first startup incubator founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
I managed customer discovery/user research, product strategy, UX/UI design and prototyping for our portfolio AI-first startups. We successfully launched multiple high valued AI-first companies, raising over $56M on $250M valuation.
Led design and development of AI-powered automation SaaS platform. I designed and managed all of our product design and design systems for all of our web and mobile applications.
Education
I teach the courses Mobile App Design, Applied Product Design and Rapid Prototyping for students in the Informatics, Human-Centered Design and Engineering programs.
Side Projects
We discuss the challenges designers face with candor and humor, while exploring the process of creating great design
Writing
I am the author of O’Reilly’s first flagship definitive guide – or ‘animal book’ on mobile. This start to finish guide instructs on the principles and best practices of mobile design.
Speaking
Features
Made the very first "must-have" iPhone app.