Product designer, Los Angeles
I design for the moments people can’t afford to misread.
I’ve spent over ten years designing products that many people rely on, often at the same time. At CNN, that includes elections, articles, and personalization. At Backlit, the AI company I co-founded, I lead product and UX. I also teach interaction design at Santa Monica College.
Selected work
Skillsets
I have over ten years of product design experience and enough building skills to prototype what I design.
Design
Research-led product design
Design systems
Accessibility
AI interaction patterns
Prototyping
Workshop facilitation
Build
Framer
Figma and Figma Make
Claude Code
Vibe coding
HTML and CSS
Working with Swift and React engineers
Experience
01
CNN (Skydance)
Senior Product Designer
2021 to now
02
Backlit
Co-founder, product and UX lead
2025 to now
03
Santa Monica College
Adjunct Professor of Interaction Design
2025 to now
04
Designlab and Interaction Design Foundation
Senior Design Mentor
2021 to now
05
Earlier: Eversource, Goldstar Events, Nasdaq
Where I work
CNN
Election, article and personalization experiences for one of the world’s largest news sites.
Backlit
Co-founder. Product and UX lead for an agentic iOS app.
Teaching
Adjunct professor of interaction design at Santa Monica College. Mentor at Designlab and the Interaction Design Foundation.
AI generates options. Designers decide direction.
From my workshop, Design in the age of AI