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Work

My design philosophy is rooted in essentialism: the quiet art of stripping away complexity to bring focus on what users actually value most, and make those moments extraordinary. As Dieter Rams put it: “Less, but better.”

The case studies below reflect how I’ve shaped and refined this intuition over more than a decade of design practice, delivering meaningful outcomes for both users and businesses at scale.

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DoorDash

2023 - Present

Dasher homescreen redesign

Pitched, led, and shipped the biggest redesign of the app

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Lyft

2020 - 2023

Lyft rider onboarding revamp

Increasing rider confidence and activations during signup

Scaling Lyft’s Ride History

Evolving Lyft’s multimodal transportation strategy

Redefining support messaging at Lyft

Design-led vision for Lyft's AI-powered chat experience

Improving Lyft's driver deactivations

Providing clarity & transparency about account blocks

LinkedIn logo

LinkedIn

2020

Empowering candidates to apply

Predictive signaling with likeness matching

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Drift

2018 - 2020

Multiplayer inbox for sales teams

Qualifying leads through conversations efficiently

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Jana

2017 - 2018

Evolving a mobile web browser

End-to-end redesign of an Android browser

Gamifying the browsing experience

Rewarding users for browsing with engaging mechanics

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Accenture

2015 - 2016

Multi-device telehealth access

Seamless access to care on any device

Financial literacy for smart investing

Making complex finance easy to learn