Senior UX Designer

Designing for complexity — research-driven, systems-first, built to be reused, not just shipped.

I’ve built new institutional products from the ground up, brought structure to mature systems too high-stakes to redesign carelessly, and led the design-system work that outlasts any one project. Along the way: university libraries, federal agencies, high-stakes commerce flows, and the executive stakeholders who each needed something different from the same person. Currently a Senior UX Designer at the American Psychological Association.

Case Studies & Features

APA Style Manual Online

Flagship case study

Ground-floor UX design for the first interactive digital edition of APA’s Style Manual — taking a static reference work into a searchable, annotatable product for institutional customers.

UX Lead · 6-month build · Shipped 2025

APA E-Commerce Redesign

Flagship case study

Redesigning cart, checkout, and email flows across a complex matrix of purchase scenarios — fixing a long-standing mobile pain point and producing reusable patterns for the org’s design system.

UX Lead · Concurrent payment-processor migration · Shipped 2024

USDA ESMIS

Flagship case study

UX design for a federal agricultural data repository serving both public researchers and USDA staff — built on an open-source platform, validated with real government users.

Design Lead · Cornell University · Shipped 2018

APA Pattern Library 2.0

Design system

Leading the migration of APA’s design system from Bootstrap 4 to 5, and establishing the governance that keeps a synced Figma and coded library alive and evolving today.

Primary owner · Ongoing since 2022

Selected Work

New Member Application

Selected work

Redesigning APA’s membership application form — mapping eligibility logic across membership tiers to what each applicant could see and choose when applying for membership.

UX designer · Figma deliverable

Council Leadership Site

Selected work

A dashboard and issue tracker for APA’s Council of Representatives and board — designed on a fast timeline using AI-assisted prototyping.

Full design ownership · Shipped recently