Since June of 2024, I’ve been working as the lead product designer at Syllo, the first end-to-end litigation platform with agentic AI document review. As the first full time design hire in a rapidly evolving startup environment, I overhauled the look and feel of the platform across a half dozen different applications. I also established best practices for design handoff, user testing, QA and helped grow the Product Department from 3 to 8 people.

Prior to Syllo, I worked at boutique product agencies in NYC run by process nerds like myself. That’s given me a deep toolkit of research and design methods for every stage of the software development lifecycle.

I am especially proud of the agency work I did with nonprofits, healthcare and scientific research organizations. Notably:

• In 2021 and 2022 I worked with Argonne National Laboratory designing a Research Data Management Platform, as well as machine-learning powered materials science tools.
• In 2021 I worked with doctors at Columbia University Irving Medical Center on a clinical trial to investigate if an educational iPad app could increase condom use in sexually active teenage boys.
• I also co-authored a paper on the process of designing an app for the Columbia study.
• In 2018 I worked with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals on Abilify MyCite, the first FDA approved app + pill + wearable combo for people living with Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder.

When I’m not working, I love to garden, hike, kayak and spread the good word about native plants. I draw, collage and make pottery. I volunteer in my community, both as a designer and a set of hands. I’m a big reader and feel best when I’m learning new skills or about natural systems; recent obsessions have been space weather, restoration agroecology (ask me about bur oaks!), and scything.

I also make the world’s best guacamole and the world’s worst puns ^{(citation needed)}.

I find design inspiration in the ways nature solves problems. Squids and Elephants are from completely separate branches of the animal kingdom but developed strikingly similar solutions to the same use cases.

Combining the two created a cute cryptid that felt like an appropriate mascot for the design process. It’s a my reminder that there are many different ways to get to get to a good design.