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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.

Role
UX Designer, Independent
Timeframe
2017–2019 · identity work through 2023
Scope
Product architecture · Prototyping · Brand & print
Location
Portland, OR

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.

A concentric information-architecture diagram with a home-value overview at its center.
Keep's information architecture: a home-value core, ringed by planning, education, and finance features

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 PGMC monogram: the letters P, G, M, and C set in a circle.
The PGMC monogram
The PGMC monogram projected on a stage curtain, and on a venue banner.
The PGMC identity in use: projected at showtime, and on the venue banner

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 Radiators poster, passport booklet, and calendar spreads.
The "United Nation of Fishheads" system: promotional poster, the tour passport, and its interior spreads

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.

Sony Pictures studio-lot banners and a Levi's retail interior with large illustrated panels.
The production side: show banners across Sony Pictures' studio lot and retail environments for Levi's — printed at Crush Creative as a desktop operator; the designs belong to their designers