Resume

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Experience

Canvas Design System · 2015 to present

Teams: Emerging Tech (Workday Student), Mobile, Core, Design Systems

Lead and mentor Workday’s distributed Design Systems team, three designers in Pleasanton and two in Dublin, Ireland. A working lead: set direction, stay hands-on in the components.
Drive a unified visual direction for Canvas while keeping its token architecture underneath.
Own the Canvas component library, used by 80+ teams.
Steward Canvas across two codebases: Canvas Kit (React) and a Dublin-maintained set of components for Workday’s Xpresso codebase.
Build accessibility into components from the start, designing to WCAG before work reaches Workday’s accessibility review teams.
Write component documentation and usage guidelines so product teams can build consistent experiences on their own.
Use AI in daily system work: drafting documentation, synthesizing research findings, managing library drift, updating tokens, and building Figma plugins.
Designed the Login experience on Workday Core.
Created a Figma storyboard kit so teams can build storyboards for user stories, making narrative a default part of the design process.
Prototyped an interactive data-visualization graph in Framer for Workday Rising.
On the Mobile team, helped build and maintain mobile UI components before joining Design Systems.

2012 to 2015

Designed drawing and annotation tools for a digital learning platform. Built a note-taking system with 200+ assets and style guides, and 300+ UI components refined through testing across web and mobile.

1999 to 2012

Zoosk, Senior Product Designer: redesigned the core dating experience across web, desktop, and mobile. Built a mobile-first design system and style guide.
Jacobson Rost and PEAK6: built interactive tools and design systems, developed accessible web experiences, and led creative teams.
Encyclopedia Britannica: created award-winning educational web features and cross-platform interactive experiences.

Storyboon: a writing studio for comic writers that I designed and built with Claude. Now in research preview.
Apps: working tools and apps, each built with Claude as a hands-on partner in design and development.
“AI Won’t Save You From Bad Taste”: an essay on why AI doesn’t manufacture taste, and the sameness creeping into AI-generated interfaces.

Design Systems and Code: design tokens and architecture, component architecture, Canvas Kit (React), accessibility and WCAG, documentation and guidelines, front-end prototyping
AI Collaboration: daily practice with Claude, custom Claude skills, AI-assisted prototyping and building
Tools: Figma (advanced), Framer, Sketch
Leadership: design system governance, distributed team leadership, mentorship, workshop facilitation
Illustration: Procreate, Fresco, Clip Studio Paint, children’s book illustration