Selected case studies

Vibr is a browser-only design agent I designed and build at vibr.art. Describe a screen, pick a real design system from npm, and an agent plans it, builds it, checks that it renders, reviews it, and repairs what it finds. Designers bring their own model key, and nothing runs on a server.

This site is my most-used design artifact, so I treat it like a product. I designed it and built it in Next.js: a brand engineered into tokens the build enforces, motion that runs on the compositor, a published design system agents can read, and performance I measure instead of assume.

Sandcastle is a design agent harness I built at Pulumi. It turns Linear tickets and Slack requests into working prototypes built from the real Pulumi Design System, and hands them to me as draft pull requests in about eight minutes. It runs on my laptop, builds while I'm in meetings or asleep, and never makes a decision that matters.

Senior UX Designer at Pulumi. Lead design across Pulumi Cloud, most recently growth: OIDC onboarding for Pulumi ESC and Connect cloud accounts onboarding. Also the Pulumi Design System, Insights (shipped from beta through general availability, since matured into Governance), ESC approvals, and governance and policy remediation in Pulumi Neo, our agentic AI platform engineer. Every UI refresh since 2024.

Pulumi Cloud UI refreshes since 2024, told through before and after: hierarchy, color, and type reworked for dense, technical screens, built on the Pulumi Design Foundation.

Connecting a cloud account securely was the hardest first step in Pulumi. I turned it into one guided flow for Pulumi ESC, then built it as a pattern, so Connect cloud accounts shipped on the same steps. The share of teams using cloud login roughly doubled, and connecting many accounts went from hours or days to about three minutes.

The visual language under Pulumi Cloud: color, type, spacing, and motion defined as tokens, tuned for a deeply technical UI that has to read at density without losing hierarchy. The Pulumi Design System's Web Components import the tokens, and Figma libraries stay in sync with them, so what's designed is what ships.

Founded and led Octuple, Eightfold's open-source design system, from zero to 10,000+ production implementation points in under eight months across the AI-powered talent intelligence platform. Winner of the 2022 Eightfold Innovation Award.

Seven years on Microsoft Education designing AI-powered learning products before 'AI-native' was the phrase. Originated the assignments schema in 2014. Took Immersive Reader, a UX surface over neural TTS, neural machine translation, and NLP, from concept to 46M monthly active users. Shipped OneNote Live Captions on Microsoft's speech and translation pipelines. Led OneNote web accessibility to Level-C SLA attainment.

Among the early movers in shipping major HTML5-based brand advertising at scale. Moved Amazon's brand-advertising stack off Flash in late 2013 and early 2014 while the rest of the industry was still SWF-heavy. Cover Girl × Hunger Games: Catching Fire was Amazon's first major HTML5-based ad takeover. Designed and shipped IAB-compliant rich-media for Pepsi, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Clorox, Kimberly Clark, and Beiersdorf.

Sole design developer of the Windows 8 Fresh Paint application UI, built end-to-end in XAML/C# with DirectX C++ for 3D paint effects. Shipped in-box on Windows 8, reaching 1B MAU on the platform. Invented the BoundsType property for typographic grid control across the Windows platform.

Owned the Microsoft Dynamics creative platform at Metia, extending the Windows brand into a multi-channel system for video, web, and presentations. Coded the Microsoft Design portal, used as a recruitment surface from 2011 to 2015.