Systems-thinking product designer for 20+ years.

Sony, PayPal, YouTube, Eli Lilly, and startups from seed to acquisition. Now focusing on agentic experiences, design engineering processes,and the future of product design as an industry.

About

I've spent the last two decades designing products at scale and building design functions from scratch, often as the first or only designer in the room.

My career started at the early edge of web development in the late '90s, working with the W3C and CSS Working Group, and has moved through mobile, product design, design leadership, and now AI-augmented workflows. I've led teams, hired teams, built design systems, and shipped products that got acquired.

Most recently I've been designing within FDA regulatory constraints at Eli Lilly, leading a corporate redesign for IAAPA, and building my own products: a developer stack monitoring app (hexwatch), an AI-powered music recommendation engine (Auric Engine), and open source tools. All designed in Figma and built through agentic programming, working out the workflow between a human designer directing AI-driven engineering.

2021 — Now

Pharma, cybersecurity, fintech. FDA compliance, design systems at scale. Building independent products through agentic programming, exploring the workflow between human design direction and AI-driven engineering.

2016 — 2020

Design leadership. Figma adoption, design systems, principal roles. Growing teams, managing agencies, shipping at startups from seed through acquisition.

2012 — 2016

Mobile and product design at PayPal, YouTube, and agencies. Xcode, Android Studio, Sketch. Research labs, hardware-informed design.

1998 — 2012

The hard knox of webdev. HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP. W3C and CSS Working Group. The foundation for everything since.

Selected Work

Previous experience available on LinkedIn in more detail:

UX Design Lead | EF Education First | Oct 2011 - Oct 2012
Interactive Designer | Dealer.com | Jul 2010 - Jul 2011
Senior Interactive Designer & Front-End Developer | Propeller Media Works | Jan 2007 - Jul 2010
Interactive Designer & Front-End Developer | Great Auk Wireless | 2004 - 2007
Front-End Developer | Schneider Digital | 2003 - 2004

Independent Work

Passion projects and personal tooling built while exploring the ideal relationship and workflow between a human designer and agentic programming. All designed in Figma, built primarily with Claude Code, with Codex handling unit tests and pre-launch checks.

hexwatch

Shipped

Native iOS, iPadOS, and Apple Watch app monitoring a developer stack across 20 services including Vercel, Railway, Supabase, GitHub, Stripe, Sentry, and Cloudflare. Dual-mode AES-256-GCM encrypted storage. No analytics, no telemetry.

Auric Engine

In Development

AI-powered music recommendation system that crawls record labels, independent blogs, and editorial sources to surface artists based on genuine cultural signal rather than listening behavior or popularity metrics. Architected as a paid API.

Auric

Personal Use

Native macOS high-resolution audio player for large offline music libraries. Custom shuffle algorithm, advanced folder-watching, FLAC/ALAC/WAV support.

Auric TUI

Open Source

Full-featured terminal audio player written in Rust. Lossless playback, real-time spectrum analyzer, album art rendering, vim-style navigation. Dracula and Gruvbox themes. MIT licensed.

porkbun-mcp

Open Source

MCP server enabling AI agents to manage Porkbun DNS records through any MCP-compatible client. Full DNS record CRUD. Runs locally over stdio only. MIT licensed.