About
ux designer with a passion for queer people and building products that foster community, friendship, and human connection
Work Experience
As the founding designer, I'm the first full-time designer on the team at Castro Labs, where I design and build queer software focused on building community, validating our queer experiences, and helping people form meaningful connections. As a small start-up, I'm a jack-of-all-trades dabbling in UX, UI, brand, content design, as well as a bit of user research, & product roadmapping and strategy.
I cut my teeth on Product Design at the house of Tweets. I started out coding emails on the Design team and eventually worked my way up to overseeing design efforts on Home timeline. In my time there, I designed Notifications systems and recommendations, helped push Direct Messages on the privacy front, and chipped away at Twitter's broader push into becoming a topic- and interest-based platform.
I had the briefest of stints on the Privacy team for Messenger. I was mainly focused on physical privacy, as well as leading a larger partnerships project.
Projects
peel is a quick and simple social game to stay connected with friends near and far
Bent is a community chat platform that helps diverse queer communities come together and thrive.
OOMF! is a gay and queer messaging app that gives people a better way to flirt. It's a fun and friendly way to meet new people and chat safely with people you already know.
I led the design work behind Twitter's 2018 decision to bring back reverse-chronological Home timelines.
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