About
Leading design at Loci. Working pro-bono on projects that benefit community, schools, or the Earth. Trying to make technology kind.
Projects
Visualizing the outputs of Vauxel, a machine learning model that recognizes and describes 3D files. A 3D input floats on the left, and a rich text description gets generated on the right.
Check out the live beta here.
Recipient of the 2023 Red Dot Award for Interface Design.
"Conveyor" is a no-code tool to wrangle multiple AI models (Claude, GPT) and everyday apps (Gmail, Slack) to work together and solve life's most mundane tasks. It was built by a small team of designers and engineers and deployed internally at IBM.
As a UX designer, I researched and designed the prototypes below. I also got to lead our team's presentations to the wonderfully supportive IBM GM of Design, Katrina Alcorn and VP of UX Research, Karel Vredenburg.
Here, a user builds a workflow to automatically transcribe, summarize, and share meeting recordings:
Education
College's first graduate in 'Humane Design'—researching the powerful, prickly bond between humans and technology.
Coursework in design, neuroscience, data, and ethics.
Graduated summa cum laude and spoke at commencement.
Work Experience
Leading design at a General Catalyst-backed startup that uses computer vision to make the 3D digital world easier and safer to navigate.
Designer for nonprofits and startups that help people and the planet. 30+ clients across 4 continents:
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First designer at a Viz.ai, a startup that uses AI to detect strokes and save lives. Built brand and decks that helped raise seed funding, get hospitals on board, and secure FDA clearance for clinical trials.
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Designed posters and pitch decks to help Fair Trade USA, a global nonprofit, explain key projects to investors—from farmer COVID-19 aid programs, to progress in UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Worked with scientists at Netzwerk Blühende Landschaft, a German nonprofit that turns empty lots into pollinator-friendly meadows. Designed booklets in German and English to close corporate sponsorships.
Helped design Conveyor, a tool that helps people string together AI models without writing any code. Received the 2023 Red Dot Award in Interface Design.
Subject partners with public high school districts to create accessible credit-bearing online classes, so students from any background can pursue advanced coursework.
As designer #4, I delivered illustrations, motion, and web design for Subject's 50,000 learners.
Course Hero helps disadvantaged students succeed by acting as an affordable, equitable private tutor.
I led 0→1 design for an iOS experience that allows students to take a picture of their homework to get quick help. The feature went live in 2020!
Helped teach 5 graduate workshops with the Nueva Design Thinking Insitute at Stanford's Hasso Plattner School of Design (d.school) and University Innovation Fellows program.
Covered prototyping, brainstorming, and visual design.
Volunteering
Arthropod advocate. Reading picture books to the museum's youngest visitors and their families.
Lived on a small farm in Vermont. Wrangled rams, scooped hay, and helped feed and milk 30 sheep.
Led tours, wrote labels, and planned events to make an art museum that welcomes everyone.
Speaking
Skoltech is a research university established in partnership with MIT.
I gave a seminar on visual design to 40 graduate students studying entrepreneurship. We came up with definitions of design, created branding principles, and analyzed a case study.
From 2014 to 2017, I helped teach 5 graduate workshops with the Nueva Design Thinking Insitute at Stanford's Hasso Plattner School of Design (d.school) and University Innovation Fellows program.
We taught rapid prototyping and use need-finding strategies to cohorts of University Innovation Fellows and high school educators from around the country.
Side Projects
Designed and built a contact-sharing app with a few high school classmates. Raised capital from Sherpa Ventures (Airbnb, Slack, Uber). Closed shop to get back to class.
Awards
"The Red Dot Design Award is an international, annual design competition for product design that dates back to 1954. The distinction of 'Red Dot' has become established internationally as one of the most sought-after seals of quality for good design."
Shared with a small team at IBM for our work on Conveyor, a tool for building AI apps without code.
Editor in Chief and Art Director of a fantastic yearbook team in high school. Ranked #4 in the country "in recognition of outstanding achievement in art in a national competition. Honored at the National High School Journalism Convention in Chicago on November 3rd, 2018."