Over 8 years, I’ve designed a congressionally funded DoD application that compressed multi-year military planning into hours, built the analytics platform that helped drive first-time profitability at a legal tech company, and designed experiences for Microsoft used by millions of enterprise users.
On my first day at Knowable I was pulled into a meeting where half the company was laid off. Three months later, I shipped the legal analytics system which won both People’s and Professional’s Choice awards for Product Innovation at Legalweek for turning unstructured contract data into strategic insights with no prior legal tech experience. The system helped Knowable achieve first-time profitability immediately after launch.
B2B • Data Visualization • User Research • Legal Industry
The story of how I went from a minor contracted contributor to design lead on Stormbreaker, a $10m congressionally-funded military planning platform that I shipped with no prior defense industry experience. Mid-project, when stakeholders moved to eliminate my entire creative team, I stepped up to lead and convinced leadership across organizations to keep everyone. The client hired me directly afterward.
This case study contains no direct design work but does show my process.
B2G • Leadership & Strategy • Defense Industry
A case study in Goal-Directed Design, applied to an EDI mapping application to develop my skills during a career break.
B2B • Data Visualization • AI Use in Workflow • eCommerce Industry
Founding Knowable’s design system meant figuring out a style that would feel familiar to lawyers while still being modern and WCAG accessible.
Founder • Client: Knowable • Axure • Colors Components & Typography
A practice design system that leverages the techniques I used while working on Stormbreaker in a non-confidential way.
Founder • No Client • Tokens & Variables • Figma • Practice Project • Colors Components & Typography
Changes I made to Cirium’s Airframe design system while I was contributing to it.
Maintainer • Client: Cirium • Figma • Components & Typography
The custom application of Office Fabric and associated documentation I made for the Active Directory team while working there.
Founder • Client: Microsoft • Adobe XD • Documentation & Training
I designed Developer Studio, Cirium’s unified API platform that consolidated documentation from multiple acquisitions into a single subscription hub, unlocking new revenue streams and simplifying the developer experience.
B2C • Responsive Design • Aviation Industry
I led design on ~60% of myaccount.microsoft.com, Microsoft’s self-service portal for enterprise customers. The redesign empowered millions of employees across 350,000+ businesses to manage their own account access – transforming a helpdesk bottleneck into instant self-service.
B2B • Identity
My senior project at the University of Washington’s Human Centered Design and Engineering program saw me partnering with Amazon’s Mike Berg and a team of fellow design students to research Seller Central’s competitive landscape and identify the highest-impact design opportunity. That turned out to be automatic repricing: helping sellers adjust their prices dynamically based on real-time market factors.
B2B • eCommerce