How I work

I stopped designing in Figma and started designing in the product.

Before

Research → personas → flows → wireframes → hi-fi → handoff → wait. Good work, but the first time anyone touched a real interaction was after engineering built it — and by then the cost of being wrong was high.

You can see that process in my Experian and Yesware work. I'm proud of it. It's also slower than it needs to be now.

Now

Problem → working prototype in the repo (hours, not weeks) → test on real interaction → refine the prototype → push the front end into the codebase → iterate post-launch.

At Circle this is how Arc Portal went from idea to a testable prototype in about two hours, and how Arc Studio was designed against a deployed repository-backed prototype rather than a click-through.

What that changes

Research gets real. People react to something that actually works. Interviews stop being about hypotheticals.
Handoff mostly disappears. The prototype is the spec. Engineering reviews a PR, not a redline.
Design leadership means shipping. I still set direction, run research, and manage designers — I just also commit code.

Toolchain

Claude Code, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Astro/Next, Mintlify, Git. Figma when a team needs it. I also build my own design skills — agents for iteration, synthetic users, simulated stakeholders, design-system conformance, and design briefs. They're on the Skills page.

Track record

Three spot awards and "exceptional" ratings in every performance review over the last three years, across Experian and Circle.