
I help founders avoid attractive wrong turns and move quickly from idea to product.
I bring two decades of experience designing and building products for the world’s top tech companies to help early-stage teams get off the ground. I’ve worked across product, brand, and emerging technology, helping teams turn ambitious ideas into products people love.
As a fractional design partner, I help shape the core experience, build prototypes, and bring the product and brand into focus. From early explorations through launch, I help teams decide what matters most, test their assumptions, and bring a clear point of view to the details of what they ship.
I’m drawn to products where the benefit is easy to explain to a neighbor and the creative territory feels fresh. I’m interested in business models where revenue and the product’s stated benefit pull in the same direction. I especially care about creative applications of education, wellbeing, community, and inventing healthier relationships with technology.
I do my best work with founders who are collaborative, honest, decisive, and have strong taste. I prefer direct access to decision-makers, enough authority and time to materially shape the product, and a working rhythm that treats design as a core part of building, not an afterthought. I’m looking for partnerships where we can think together, move quickly, and hold a high bar without burning each other out.
Talks

Designing At The Speed of Startups
Config, 2025

Private By Default: Ethically Personalized Digital Products
Front Conference, 2021

UXPeditions: Can Technology Make A Safer World?
Design Driven, 2018

Designing Beyond The Screen
JAM Conf, 2017

Why Silicon Valley Loves Cuban Sandwiches
Gasparilla Interactive, 2016
Interviews

The Future Belongs to Fractional Designers
Dive Club, 2025

Episode 47 — Filling the Design Void
Full Stack Whatever, 2024

Storytelling and Designing 0-1
Dive Club, 2023