Services

Discovery

Discovery is the process of finding and applying design principles and customer insights to arrive at a shared product vision.

Design workshops/sprints, prototyping, planning, and research

Delivery

Delivery of detailed design specifications enables your team to build high quality user experiences that accurately express design intent.

Information architecture, interaction design, visual design, guidelines & documentation, development

Design Systems

Design systems reduce duplication of effort, increase developer velocity, and improve the consistency and quality of the user experience.

Design guild facilitation, guidelines & documentation, assessment & coaching

Work

Amazon • Product Design • 2018 - 2020

Alexa Mobile

The Alexa mobile app is central to the Alexa ecosystem. Using the app to set up an Echo device is the first direct experience most people have with Alexa in their own home.

Amazon • Product Design • 2017

Amazon Spaces

Amazon Spaces was an internal startup to create an innovative way to sublet excess parking in multi-unit apartment complexes.

Amazon • Product Design • 2016

AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.

Amazon • Product Design • 2016

AWS Athena

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in AmazonS3 using standard SQL.

Amazon • Product Design • 2016

Amazon EMR Notebooks

Amazon EMR Notebooks is a service used to create Jupyter notebooks that you can use with Amazon EMR clusters to remotely run queries and code.

Cisco • Product Design • 2014

Cisco Licensing

Cisco's hardware licensing operation had become a patchwork of incompatible systems. I built a team and a set of processes to consolidate these systems and remove a major source of negative feedback for Cisco's products.

Cloudforest Design • Co-Owner, Principal Designer • 2010 - 2015

Sunrun

The Solar Design Tool was designed to make it possible to quickly and accurately design solar power systems without requiring a site visit.

Cloudforest Design • Co-Owner, Principal Designer • 2010 - 2015

Workspot

Workspot provides enterprises with services to allow employees to bring their tablets to work and access all of their work apps and productivity tools quickly and easily, without giving up control of their personal device.

Cloudforest Design • Co-Owner, Principal Designer • 2010 - 2015

CollabNet Cloudforge

Cloudforest worked with CollabNet to examine the CloudForge project, a cloud-based service for managing projects, and offer recommendations for improvements based on user experience best practices.

Cloudforest Design • Co-Owner, Principal Designer • 2010 - 2015

Various Clients

Cloudforest Design created user-centered applications, websites, and cross-platform digital strategies that are easy to use, engaging and fun. As co-owner and principal designer with Cloudforest, I completed design projects for well over a dozen clients, several of whom were frequent repeat customers. I also managed a team of over a dozen designers and researchers who assisted with our projects.

Cisco • Art Director, Interaction Design • 2008 - 2009

Cisco User Experience Standards

The goal was to create a single design language that would be used across all of Cisco's products, from the tiniest scale of IoT products to the largest scale of immersive telepresence.

Google • Design Technologist • 2007

Google Maps

I created multiple prototypes for usability testing of hover/click interaction of Google Maps information bubbles.

Yahoo • Web Developer/Designer • 2005 - 2008

Yahoo Marketing

Introducing Yahoo users to new products and features was a perennial challenge that often involved a tension between allowing the user to continue with their original task, and introducing them to something new. Our experiments with new user onboarding and feature marketing established patterns still followed today throughout the web industry.

Lutris • Art Director, Web Developer • 1999 - 2000

Lutris

In my role as Art Director, I trained designers with a depth of experience in print design how to adapt their approach for the web. I built bridges between the design and engineering departments, by establishing collaboration processes, and innovating our approach to UI implementation.

Freelance • Web Designer/Developer • 1998 - 2007

Various Clients

I worked with a variety of clients as a web developer/designer. Tasks frequently included information architecture and interaction design, in addition to development.