About

I’ve spent nearly my entire life thinking about art and design.

An early education in and passion for the fine arts led me to design as a profession. I began my career in brand and marketing design. That experience gave me a foundation in visual communication and a love of craft.

It also eventually led me to product design. I now design online payment experiences at Square and mentor early-career designers in my free time.

I focus my design thinking on the the experiences of those who interact with my work. I obsess over the minutiae of people’s preferences and behaviors. Once I feel firmly grounded in my understanding, I spend hours refining every interaction to something that would resonate with its users.

Outside of my work as a product designer, I can be found in my pottery studio creating sculptural lighting, in my garden harvesting chili peppers for my next hot sauce, or on long walks with my doberman Lincoln.