UX Designer · Independent & Agency
Independent
Design work outside of in-house roles, spanning product consulting and agency partnerships. It's given me range across mediums and client types that still shows up in how I approach a project today.
Background
Between in-house roles, I've taken on independent product-design consulting: architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and user testing for SaaS clients, and presentation systems for agency and brand partnership work. Earlier in my career, I did conceptual design and print production work for agencies in Portland and Los Angeles, the kind of broad, hands-on training you don't get any other way.
Selected work
Supply — product architecture for Keep
For Supply, a Portland startup, I developed the product architecture, wireframes, and prototypes for Keep, its companion product for first-time homeowners; ran moderated user-testing sessions against the prototype; and delivered the product plan for a responsive SaaS application with a native-app counterpart.
HERENOW / Nike — presentation systems
With the agency HERENOW, I designed Keynote presentation systems used in Nike client and partnership work — reusable, on-brand templates built for teams that assemble high-stakes decks under deadline. The work itself stays confidential, which is part of the job.
Brand & identity
Identity work has continued alongside product roles. The longest-lived is the Portland Gay Men's Chorus — a circular monogram that made it from the page to the stage — alongside more recent logo systems for firms in the civil-engineering space (2023).
The Radiators — a fan passport
With collaborator Kathy Yom, we took an idea to the New Orleans band The Radiators: a "United Nation of Fishheads" passport their fans could buy, get stamped at every show they attended, and redeem for a prize at the end. Working with the band, we designed the whole piece — the passport, its poster, and the art and design throughout — and handled its distribution to fans as a collectible piece of memorabilia.
The agency years
Earlier in my career, I did conceptual design and print production for agencies in Portland and Los Angeles — campaign and collateral work for brands including UGG, Doritos, and Mark Levinson's partnership with Lexus. Before that, I worked the production side as a desktop operator at Crush Creative, a large-format printer — putting other designers' work onto studio lots and store walls, and learning how print gets made at scale.
UGG for Men: a seasonal campaign system carried across hero, banner, and interactive formats
Mark Levinson × Lexus: print brochure with annotated audio-system diagrams
Doritos "Road Chip": a Super Bowl campaign site with fan voting, tied to USA Today's Ad Meter
Sunken City: marketing site for the independent feature film