Currently, I'm a Senior Product Designer at Netflix working on enterprise design systems. Previously, I was a Staff Product Designer at Okta, where I focused on scaling their design system from 0-80 teams. Before that, I was a Staff Product Designer at Gusto, where I operationalized their design system, Workbench, branding it and leading design and strategy for the key components, their docs site, and cross-functional partnerships. I began specializing in design systems at Sprout Social, where I was the first design hire. Over 10 years—from the startup days through their IPO, I co-created Seeds and founded Sprout's design system team.
Outside of work, I'm an adventurous home cook, a passion from my family's restaurant kitchen in Michigan. After 15 frozen winters years in Chicago, I now live in Oakland, CA, with my family and our two wild and crazy Whippets, Devo and Phoebe. I enjoy hiking, cycling, and (often regretfully) rooting for the Chicago White Sox.
Talks and Writing
- Toronto Design Systems Community Meetup – Inside Design Systems: Workbench
- Design Systems For Figma: Small Steps, Big Changes
- Designing Our Design Systems Team
- Design System Ambassadors
- Prototype Camp Chicago “Designing for Iteration: How we Build Prototypes at Sprout Social”
- Building a Custom Icon Font
Citations, interviews, and mentions
- Expressive Design Systems by Yesenia Perez-Cruz, A Book Apart [Quoted]
- Laying the Foundations A Book about Design Systems by Andrew Couldwell [Quoted]
- Smashing Newsletter: Issue #376 [Work Cited]
- Inside Design by InVision: Steal these ideas from the Sprout Social design team [Interviewed]
- Smashing Magazine: Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color [Work Cited]
- Smashing Magazine: Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites [Work Cited]
- Mashable: 7 Awesome CSS3 Techniques You Can Start Using Right Now [Work Cited]