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Designer, writer, tinkerer.

I'm a product design leader working at the intersection of design and AI.

I'm currently leading product design at PermitFlow, where we're using AI to automate the complex system of construction permitting in North America.

My newsletter Here & There  has 60k subscribers and covers deeply researched topics in travel, adventure, and outdoor culture.

PermitFlow

Leading product & design on a high-velocity team working on automating and improving the annoyingly complex construction permitting process in North America

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Role

Lead product designer
Design
SEO

PermitFlow

A platform for makers

I led a cross-functional team focused on UGC and growth, driving collaboration across design, product, engineering, and content. My redesign of product hubs resulted in a 32% increase in CTR and meaningful improvements across several of our key KPIs. I rearchitected the category and search taxonomy, creating a more intuitive structure across thousands of products. To reduce friction in launches, I redesigned our post flow, which led to a 28% drop in support tickets. I also partnered with the content team to shape a new user acquisition journey, including onboarding flows and targeted drip email campaigns.

Lead product designer
Design
SEO

Product Hunt

Product pages

Borrowed & Blue

A data-driven approach to wedding-planning

I led a comprehensive redesign and re-architecture of the website, resulting in a 35% increase in average page views. Central to this effort was the creation of a new design system that simplified our front-end codebase and improved both page performance and maintainability. I designed a photo browsing experience that increased time on site by 25%, and helped oversee a strategic shift from regional to geo-located search, aligning the product more closely with user intent and behavior.

Senior product designer
Design
Front-end

The Outbound Collective

Getting everyone outside

I was responsible for 100% of design and product work on web, iOS, and Android. We grew a community from scratch to over 600,000 users. I helped bootstrap the product function from the ground up, balancing speed with long-term vision. I designed and launched mobile apps (first native, then in React) that were featured twice in the App Store. Alongside design work, I developed a programmatic SEO strategy that scaled to over 1 million monthly page views. I also authored around 20% of the front-end codebase, helping bridge design and engineering for faster iteration.

Product Lead
Design
SEO
Front-end
Zero-to-1

Tribe

A fresh approach to video communication

I worked on concepting and designing an approach to video communication that focused on more spontaneous video chats. We developed a web and Mac app to facilitate team communication was used by thousands of users.

Senior product designer
Design
Zero-to-1