It's nice to meet you!
I’m an experienced product designer with a deep love for usability and visual design, a flair for communication, and a focus on accessibility. I’m an optimist with a love for data and a never-ending thirst for learning.
Currently, I'm designing at MDLIVE, where I build features to help patients connect with healthcare providers and manage their whole health. Before that, I was at Nextpoint, designing smart technology solutions for teams of legal professionals.
Prior to product design, I spend time working in technical support, project management, digital marketing, and education reform. Those experiences have shaped me into a well-rounded designer who empathizes with not only users, but with stakeholders and collaborators alike.
When I’m not designing, you can find me running along Lake Michigan, harmonizing with pop hits, or looking for a good slice of pizza. 🍕 I also enjoy creating art and learning different creative techniques as a hobbyist.
Currently, I'm designing at MDLIVE, where I build features to help patients connect with healthcare providers and manage their whole health. Before that, I was at Nextpoint, designing smart technology solutions for teams of legal professionals.
Prior to product design, I spend time working in technical support, project management, digital marketing, and education reform. Those experiences have shaped me into a well-rounded designer who empathizes with not only users, but with stakeholders and collaborators alike.
When I’m not designing, you can find me running along Lake Michigan, harmonizing with pop hits, or looking for a good slice of pizza. 🍕 I also enjoy creating art and learning different creative techniques as a hobbyist.
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💡 Recent Projects + Hobbies
Learning how to animate in After Effects
Making art with Copic markers
Learning Italian
Making art with Copic markers
Learning Italian
My Design Values
Share. Then, listen. Repeat often.
Designers should be able to facilitate thoughtful conversation with stakeholders based on a shared, common goal. To do this, make listening and iterating a top priority after sharing initial ideas, and continue this cycle as early and as frequent as possible through the project lifecycle.
Build to reuse.
While there may always be a need to design unique, one-off UI components, it's important to reuse components when possible -- it leads to consistency and better user understanding of an interface. The same goes for creating documentation (I 💓 templates); it allows us to work smarter, not harder.
Design for all people.
It's the right thing to do, and it ends up making a better experience for all users. If we consider that disability is designed by our environment, then it's our responsibility to make our best effort to fix the things that reinforce the word "disability."
Be kind and foster a culture of openness.
In the digital product space, individuals are sharing ideas constantly. Remember to be kind and respectful to others and their ideas, ask thoughtful questions, and be open to discussion.
Embrace feedback that indicates something is wrong.
Putting design work through a usability study or test only to learn that a proposal is inherently broken is the best kind of feedback we can get. Keep the customer need and how it can be best solved at the forefront.
Never stop learning.
There's so much knowledge to absorb in this world, whether it be learning about the latest design software trends or psychology/behavioral studies. Everyone has a unique experience and voice that can be learned from.