Work
Curated case studies spanning developer experience, growth experiments, and AI & agents.
Claude Code = Design Buddy
Claude & I have merged dozens of PRs to update this portfolio website.
Trunk Quarantining Feature
I redesigned the quarantine feature with increased visibility, a simplified mental model, and a way for users to save and view why the status changed.
Designing Kitchen.ai v0.1
I designed an app that uses AI to make smart grocery shopping lists, organized by store sections and updated according to your kitchen’s contents.
Analyzing video transcripts with AI
AI is great at empowering users to analyze video transcripts.
Gatsby Builds Dashboard
This revised dashboard enabled Gatsby to come out of beta and launch its commercial offering.
Postman Checkout Flow
Successfully helped more users decide Postman was worth purchasing by replacing the checkout flow's card design with a feature comparison table.
Postman Onboarding
This design helped more Postman users experience their first “aha!” moment.
Gatsby Cloud Onboarding
I redesigned Gatsby Cloud onboarding with smart defaults to reduce the user’s cognitive load.
The Nope Game App
This game helps me decide whether to say yes or no when someone asks me to do something.
Doubled New Contributors
I partnered with a developer to make it easy for open source folks to contribute to Gatsby. Gatsby appeared in Hacktoberfest’s top projects to contribute to in 2018.
Gatsby Documentation Sidebar
I revised documentation navigation to match users’ mental models and vocabulary.
Gatsby Tutorial
More users finished the tutorial after my redesign. I broke up the content into bite-sized pieces and reduced pesky errors through better code snippet design.
The Gatsby Plugin Library
Since the launch of the Plugin Library, which I designed, the library has grown from 51 plugins to 3,000+ plugins.
Instructure Sales Training
I created and ran a month-long online course to train sales people in a new methodology.