Selected work

Decisions that connect people and systems.

The user problem, the evidence, the decisions I drove, and what changed. Product craft and the operating conditions that make it possible.

E-commerce · UX strategy & interaction design

2016–2018

The Home Depot · Checkout

My role: Senior UX Architect · Accounts, cart, checkout & Save for Later

Simplifying a high-volume purchase journey through a one-page checkout and a way to preserve shopping intent when customers were not ready to buy.

+23% reported checkout conversion+15% reported revenue from Save for Later−20% checkout time, as cited by Forbes

Healthcare · Product & program leadership

2020–2021

NAVICA · Abbott Laboratories

My role: Design Program Delivery Owner · Five-product ecosystem · 22 designers · six time zones

From a blank brief to a national COVID-19 testing platform: connecting the realities of clinical work with the operating conditions for a distributed design team.

5 connected products in one service22 designers led across six time zones at Abbott10K → 100K daily users, two weeks after launch to Sprint 10

E-commerce · Research & interaction design

2015

Sephora × JCPenney · Beauty Insider

My role: UX designer, researcher & integration lead · Rewards, samples, account access & checkout

Connecting Beauty Insider rewards to JCPenney’s shopping journey, with alternative flows and testing that made the design decisions visible.

12% → 46% sign-in/up engagement across compared flows42% → 63% sample engagement across compared flows30% → 22% skip rate across compared flows

Design operations · Organizational leadership

2021–2023

Wayfair · DesignOps Office

My role: Senior Manager, Product Design & Design Operations · 160+ person design organization · 40+ practice guides

Building the conditions for consistent product work: shared practices, a coherent toolchain, and a migration designed around the people who had to use it.

15% less time spent on design projects30% decrease in development effort$257K annual savings from retiring the old toolchain

Product design · Responsible engagement

2023–2025

FIRST90 · Brady UX

My role: Head of Product Design; DesignOps, Strategy & Ethical AI · Onboarding, micro-learning & daily engagement

Helping daily learning build momentum through visible progress and supportive feedback, with autonomy and accessibility built into the interaction model.

25% reported improvement in 30-day engagementAccessible keyboard-operable progress & feedback

Healthcare AI · Proof of concept

2019 · five weeks

OVA · Abbott Laboratories

My role: Design direction & concept leadership · AI-assisted IVF support · clinician & data-scientist partnership

A five-week exploration of AI-assisted support during IVF, shaped with clinicians and data scientists and kept within the boundaries of a proof of concept.

5 weeks proof-of-concept developmentCross-disciplinary clinicians, data scientists & design

Practice & research

Work that continues to evolve.

DesignOps & UX strategy · Current practice

2025–present

UX Design Lab · Consulting practice

My role: Director of Design Operations & UX Strategy · Team capability, accessibility & complex digital services

DesignOps and UX strategy for organizations working through complexity: growing team capability and making accessibility, clarity, and maintainability part of product decisions.

Capability diagnostics & developmentGovernance accessibility & responsible practice

Responsible AI · Research in progress

Ongoing

Auro Prism · Independent research

My role: Independent research & applied product exploration · Cognitive ergonomics, neuro-inclusive systems & decision environments

A research practice exploring how digital systems shape understanding and choice, and how design can make those systems more interpretable and supportive of human agency.

Research responsible & neuro-inclusive systemsApplied concepts including Prism Pulse