Who I am

Designing and systemizing for a decade

Human firstDesigner second

I’m a product designer who builds, integrates, and scales design systems. From freight operations to a family of brands, pharmaceutical processes, and dashboards alike—every single system needed a different shape.

That shape is what I care deeply for. How the layers fit and what has to be true before anything gets built on top.

I’ve used the word “Foundations” at every job I’ve had. We must have rigor in foundations, first, then we can scale! It might be because I’m a framer’s daughter. Growing up on job sites, watching the 2x4’s form house-like shapes. I always thought the house looked so ugly at that stage, no siding, no painted walls, or a pretty front door.

My dad built the part of a house you never see once the walls go up. A structure that everything else depends on being right.

I think about design systems the same way. When the framing is right, design work is enabled and easier. When it’s wrong, you’ll find yourself seeing a lot of shims and drywall mud to make things look right.

Every company’s home is unique and in different stages. The work is finding the right structure to get things square, so that growing doesn’t mean a remodel every time.

Let’s get to framing!

Experience

  1. June 2024–Present

    Crux

    Design Systems & Product Designer

    Leading design systems and product design work across multiple client engagements including True West, CSX, and NVIDIA.

  2. November 2023–May 2024

    Bereavement

    Family leave

    Stepped away from work to be with my family after a loss.

  3. October 2022–November 2023

    Columbia Sportswear

    Design Systems

    Led design system strategy for Foundations, a multi-brand framework centralizing design and development workflows across Columbia, Prana, Mountain Hardwear, and Sorel ecommerce platforms.

  4. July 2020–September 2022

    AstraZeneca

    Design Systems & Product Designer

    Led the creation of AstraZeneca’s first design system for clinical trial management software, enabling a distributed team to deliver user-centered solutions in a heavily regulated environment.

  5. October 2018–July 2020

    Charles Schwab

    Product Designer

    Designed meaningful experiences for Schwab’s Robo-Advisor tool across web, iOS, and Android while establishing the product’s cross-platform UI Library.

  6. September 2017–October 2018

    Transamerica

    UX Designer

    Implemented the digital transformation and rebranding for Transamerica’s main website while contributing to the company’s design system through reusable components and documentation.

Outside of design

I live in the woods of Southern California’s coastal mountains, with my partner and two dogs. I also like to shoot film photography, touch grass as often as I can, and create!

Morning sun over a rocky peak and autumn brush
A blue heeler peering out of tall golden grass
A dog wading into a lake below rust-coloured cliffs
Sunlight glinting on the ocean
Green sagebrush meadow below jagged mountain peaks
Sandstone cliffs against a pale sky
Low sun lighting a ridge of bare hills
Sun breaking through a dense pine forest
A blue heeler standing on a sandy beach
A hiker on a hazy mountain trail
A rocky coastline with sea stacks offshore
A rocky ridge above a sea of clouds
Pale granite mountains under a cloudy sky
A coast road and ocean seen from a car window
A cove and sea stack framed by coastal brush
A person standing among giant granite boulders
Weathered boulders under a blue sky
A dog walking through eroded badlands
Scattered clouds lit orange at sunset
Oak branches silhouetted over a golden hillside at dusk
A dirt road leading toward snowy peaks, seen over a car hood
An orange Volkswagen Beetle parked under shade trees
A red cinder cone in high desert scrub below pale mountains
Backlit brush on a hillside
A photographer's shadow on a dirt clearing among pines
A person walking a foggy beach scattered with driftwood
Jagged rock formations in haze
Tall pines above a curving coastal beach
An orange Volkswagen Beetle beside a leafy garden
A snowy volcano behind burnt pines and a truck
Mountains under billowing clouds beyond sagebrush
Long shadows of a person and trees across grass
A self-portrait in a car's side mirror
Granite peaks above snowfields