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Jun 2022 - Current
I joined Shopify to make commerce better for everyone. As a design lead, I've partnered with product and eng to ship complex, multi-phase design projects, dozens of UX improvements, and zero-to-1 products (like 3D scanner). Additionally, I've helped boost team productivity, customer empathy, and the product design quality bar on the mobile team and beyond.
Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
I joined an initially small team of product-minded engineers at AngelList to help even more startups get funded. Highlights include kickstarting the team's first design system and supporting 5x team growth while leading zero-to-1, re-design, and experimental feature projects to deliver intuitive, self-serve experiences across high-complexity fintech flows on both sides of the platform.
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
At Twitch, I was responsible for driving, collaborating, and executing on a shared design vision and strategy for the Creator dashboard experience. Project areas included stats and data story experiences, event creation and management, design systems, changelogs, permissions, and gamification.
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
I joined Yahoo in 2015, through the BrightRoll acquisition. In addition to continuing to lead projects for people creating, managing, and reporting on video ad campaigns using the Brightroll DSP, I supported design system work for an Audience Insights product and led a small team of designers to present a vision for a unified platform experience.
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
I joined BrightRoll in 2013, where I worked with a team of full-stack UX designers, product managers, eng manager, and engineers on the award-winning BrightRoll Console to deliver features to save customers time, increase confidence in decisions, and help sales close deals.
Aug 2011 - Aug 2013
In my two years as a Product Manager/Designer at UserTesting, I prepared projects for engineering and worked with co-founders to plan and prioritize our backlog. I helped increase average order size and gifted time back to users through improvements in the video player and editing tools, test creation flows, dashboard, feedback collection tools, support center, and more.
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May 2019 - 2020
Mar 2015 - 2018
I've worked with dozens of aspiring and high-potential designers from diverse backgrounds as they tackle Designlab courses like User Research and Interaction Design to develop critical skills for a career in UX and Product Design.
Jan 2014 - May 2015
As a part-time faculty in the School of Web Design & New Media at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, I taught intermediate user experience design and front-end development to dozens of students.
Jan 2015 - 2020
Andi Galpern created Cascade to help designers learn new skills, build a network, and keep up with the design field. I've had a lot of fun helping next-gen designers through UXNight speed mentoring events and presenting on topics like, "How to Fix Your UX Portfolio".
Chrome Browser Extension
My first browser extension was a tool for designers, making it convenient to apply filters for quick visual design tests and to simulate common forms of color blindness.
Chrome Browser Extension
My second browser extension helped make it easy for me to keep a simple to-do list synced across computers.
Chrome Browser Extension
My third browser extension scratched my itch for an even more convenient way to count characters, words, and estimated reading time.
Personal project
I started facilitating contests for UX/UI Designers featuring design projects to help them practice a variety of skills, including writing case studies or presenting their project. I support contests with live workshops on YouTube.
Learn more at uxdesigncontest.com
Personal project
One of my go-to methods for mapping out ideal user flows is to think of them as conversations between users and the system. I turned my Sketch-based dialogue flow tool into a simple web app.
Personal project
As part of facilitating UX Design Contests, I often support designers by live streaming my own process tackling the contest challenge. For one contest, I designed a simple trip idea generator with HTML + CSS + JS and hosted it on CodePen.
