
About
A planner with an aesthetic sense, I design for the future I want to exist. Interested in futures, AI, and building community.
Work Experience
I led a team of industrial and computational designers to develop “Blue Ceramics,” a modular system of ceramic tiles for restoring seagrass meadow ecosystems
- Designed illustrations, data visualizations, and presentation assets to convey key information in clear, easy to consume styles for both internal and external stakeholders
- Crafting a participatory design process between designers and scientists to design an ecological intervention
- Physical prototyping with ceramics using digital fabrication processes (3D printing, CNC)
I transitioned into a UX design role refining my skills in user-centered-design, qualitative user research, and interface design.
- Managed end-to-end product development at a rapidly scaling startup across 3 teams
- Conducted user research calls to identify key user pain points and communicated findings back for sensitive feature changes
- Collaborated with PMs to define multiple user scenarios and flows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and interactive prototypes
I was brought on as the first visual designer and illustrator for the marketing site. As the company scaled, I refined my skills in systems thinking, UX, and data-driven design.
- Built a flexible marketing design system and component library
- Improve site functionality and usability through targeting key changes to the IA and UX
- Creating a modular illustration, icon, animation asset system
I apprenticed pottery under Kobayashi Michio, second-generation master potter, learning traditional Japanese pottery techniques
I was a mountain hermit & ESL teacher in rural Japan to the sweetest high school kids
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As part of my MHCI capstone, we paired with the Data Visualization group at PNNL to design guidelines for misinformation mitigation.
- Synthesized research data to model the systems and relationships around human-AI collaboration such as AI trust, and social media engagement
- Established system of 6 interface guidelines and tools for design interventions to address misinformation spread through iterative prototyping and testing