Building and leading happy, effective design teams

Building and leading happy, effective design teams

I'm a product design leader who specializes in applying cognitive behavioral science to UI design.

I'm a product design leader who specializes in applying cognitive behavioral science to UI design.

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✦ PRODUCT DESIGN ✦ LEADER
A portrait of a young man smiling
A portrait of a young man smiling
A portrait of a young man smiling
UX Research • Product Design • Public Speaking
UX Research • Product Design • Public Speaking
Workshops • Research • Illustration
Workshops • Research • Illustration

Leadership Style

As a design leader, I serve as a mentor, cheerleader, and sounding board for my team to help them become the best designers they can be. I also work cross-functionally with the broader organization to ensure my team is producing high-quality work on-time.

Active Coaching
Active Coaching
Active Coaching

Sharing feedback with your team shouldn't happen only during performance reviews.


By providing feedback often in 1:1s, weekly team meetings, and design reviews, I have the opportunity to coach designers through challenging situations and help them through to the other side.

Sharing feedback with your team shouldn't happen only during performance reviews.


By providing feedback often in 1:1s, weekly team meetings, and design reviews, I have the opportunity to coach designers through challenging situations and help them through to the other side.

Sharing feedback with your team shouldn't happen only during performance reviews.


By providing feedback often in 1:1s, weekly team meetings, and design reviews, I have the opportunity to coach designers through challenging situations and help them through to the other side.

Taking Responsibility and Driving Action
Taking Responsibility and Driving Action
Taking Responsibility and Driving Action

I take full responsibility for the work my team delivers and collaborate cross-functionally to see it through to production.


This translates to sharing business context with my team, adhering to timelines, and iterating quickly to accommodate edits and changes from stakeholders.

I take full responsibility for the work my team delivers and collaborate cross-functionally to see it through to production.


This translates to sharing business context with my team, adhering to timelines, and iterating quickly to accommodate edits and changes from stakeholders.

I take full responsibility for the work my team delivers and collaborate cross-functionally to see it through to production.


This translates to sharing business context with my team, adhering to timelines, and iterating quickly to accommodate edits and changes from stakeholders.

Facilitating Professional Development
Facilitating Professional Development
Facilitating Professional Development

To help my team level up their skills, I constantly seek out opportunities for them to grow.


Whether it's by leading a design book club, facilitating monthly lunch-and-learns, planning annual design retreats, finding conferences, or running workshops, I enjoy prioritizing my team's continuing education.

To help my team level up their skills, I constantly seek out opportunities for them to grow.


Whether it's by leading a design book club, facilitating monthly lunch-and-learns, planning annual design retreats, finding conferences, or running workshops, I enjoy prioritizing my team's continuing education.

To help my team level up their skills, I constantly seek out opportunities for them to grow.


Whether it's by leading a design book club, facilitating monthly lunch-and-learns, planning annual design retreats, finding conferences, or running workshops, I enjoy prioritizing my team's continuing education.

Crafting a Culture of Excellence
Crafting a Culture of Excellence
Crafting a Culture of Excellence

By cultivating a culture of safety and open-mindedness, I enable designers to create their best work.


A highly-effective team is one that not only delivers exceptional work, but that also feels energized and empowered in their roles, which is one of my primary goals as a design leader.

By cultivating a culture of safety and open-mindedness, I enable designers to create their best work.


A highly-effective team is one that not only delivers exceptional work, but that also feels energized and empowered in their roles, which is one of my primary goals as a design leader.

By cultivating a culture of safety and open-mindedness, I enable designers to create their best work.


A highly-effective team is one that not only delivers exceptional work, but that also feels energized and empowered in their roles, which is one of my primary goals as a design leader.

Projects

Projects

Throughout my career, I've had the pleasure of working on a wide variety of UI, branding, and print projects. Explore a few of my favorites below!

Date Night Questions UI on a laptop and a mobile phone
Date Night Questions UI on a laptop and a mobile phone
Date Night Questions UI on a laptop and a mobile phone

Date Night Questions

A 2020 Golden Kitty finalist, Date Night Questions is a playful web app designed by me and built by my husband to help couples connect on a deeper level.

UI screens for the Fluree Nexus web app
UI screens for the Fluree Nexus web app
UI screens for the Fluree Nexus web app

Fluree Nexus

As Fluree's UX Director and Brand Manager, I was the sole designer for the company's primary web app: Fluree Nexus.

One of the levels of the Freddy the Yeti game
One of the levels of the Freddy the Yeti game
One of the levels of the Freddy the Yeti game

Custom Branded 8-Bit Game

While working at Fluree, I designed and built a custom 8-bit game using Fluree's mascot, "Freddy the Yeti" (which I also designed!)

Custom-Designed Coloring Book

After months of designing the perfect pages that were both fun to color, and reflected my own art, this 10-page coloring book finally came to life!

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