Fueling Newsweek’s historic redesign through design system architecture
Newsweek’s digital experience was fragmented across legacy components. I helped lead the transformation to a unified visual language and token-driven design system.
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Cutting agent build time at Zazmic with an AI-ready design system for agentic UX
At Zazmic I built Anvil UI from scratch, a Figma-to-code design system and Storybook made for AI agents. Teams now assemble an agent experience from tested parts instead of designing and coding it from zero on every project.
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Increasing CTR of NerdWallet product pages by 80% with A/B testing and UX improvements
As a Lead Product Designer for over a year, I redesigned strategic parts of the product while working on the new features in parallel, as well as making continuous UX improvements followed by A/B testing.
Launched Chrome extension for designers used by 500,000+ people every week
I came up with CSS Peeper, designed it from the first sketch to the 2025 relaunch, and grew it to 500,000+ weekly users and around 4 million installs without spending anything on ads. After eight years as a free tool, we turned it into a freemium product that pays for itself.
Building Grist, weekly loot for AI tools from my product design work
Grist is my side quest. A new drop lands every Friday, a rule, prompt, checklist, spec, skill or workflow from my product design work, ready to paste into Claude, Cursor or a CLAUDE.md. I designed and built all of it, from the rarity system to a plugin marketplace for Claude Code.
Optimizing conversion with improved search filters UX and new product category pages
I joined BeatStars to elevate the user experience across multiple platforms. I was responsible for increasing the conversion rate of product listing pages, and search filters UX improvements of cross-platform experience (web, iOS, and Android).
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Contributing to the official Google Material Design plugin for WordPress
On behalf of XWP I worked with the product team to deliver UX improvements and new features for the open-source Google Material Design plugin for WordPress.
Cross-platform design system for a global B2C e-commerce music licensing platform
I joined BeatStars to elevate the user experience across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, web). My role encompassed introduction of cross-platform design system, designing new product features and continuous UX improvements.
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Scalable design system for SaaS platform for software developers
I established a scalable design system for Pantheon, contributed to documentation, provided guidance to designers, and collaborated with the engineering team to integrate components into Storybook.
Increased operational efficiency of design team by 30% with design ops
I led a team of designers working on XWP's client projects. I was responsible for team leading, growth support, enhancing hiring and onboarding experience, mentoring and design toolkits.