Leading UX excellence at scale.
I've worked with Fortune 500 companies, design agencies and startups to develop high-performing, multidisciplinary design teams. My areas of expertise include design systems, platforms, accessibility and building forward-thinking UX productivity tools.
Experience
2021-Present: Shopify
Director of User Experience
In 2021 I joined Shopify to lead the platform experience team, called Build. This team delivers the tools, services and infrastructure that empowers product builders to create apps and features on Shopify's platform.
Responsible for:
2019-2021: Google
Senior Manager, Platform UX, Google Cloud
From 2019-2021, I managed
Google Cloud's platform design team, which provides the tools and design foundation for over 1,000 product designers and engineers building over
100 products within Google's Cloud ecosystem.
Google is one of the leading companies in the Cloud Services space, providing a combination of powerful functionality and ease-of-use,
according to Gartner.
Responsible for:
• The Google Cloud Console
• Google Cloud's Design System
• Inclusive Design + Accessibility
• Data Visualization + Charting Libraries
• UX Engineering + Productivity Tools
The Google Cloud console
Codesign, an advanced web-based prototyping application
Beck Maps, a tool for diagramming topology
Google Cloud Data Visualization
2014-2019: Adobe
Senior Manager, User Experience
Over five years at Adobe, I led the design of several new initiatives, including:
•
Adobe XD
•
Adobe Stock
•
Spectrum - Adobe's design system
• Adobe Creative Cloud services such as CC Libraries
• Adobe Web Platform & Authoring tools
Adobe Stock
Adobe XD - Vision
Adobe Spectrum
Creative Cloud Libraries
Selected Interviews
An interview about how we think differently about designing great experiences for software developers using Shopify's application platform.
Part one of a five-part series providing insights from design leaders on building, implementing and managing design systems.
An in-depth look at how the Spectrum team scales adoption of Adobe's design system.
An introduction and overview of Spectrum, Adobe's design system.