About
Design Through Human Signals
I'm a designer and engineer working at the intersection of experimentation, creative practice, and human-centered systems. I design by noticing the subtle cues that shape experience — a hesitation before a click, a shift in attention, an emotional openness in a portrait. These signals reveal what people need before they express it and ground how I build intuitive, emotionally aware systems.
A Perspective Formed Across Disciplines
My design lens grows from theatre, photography, experimentation, and engineering.
Theatre sharpened my sense of pacing and sensory cues — how timing quietly guides emotion and attention.
Photography taught me how framing builds trust and reveals subtle emotional truth.
A/B experimentation at lululemon showed me how behavior surfaces unspoken needs. As a frontend engineer launching hundreds of experiments, I learned that evidence matters only when paired with empathy — small interaction shifts reshape decisions at scale.
Engineering trained me to think in systems and understand how signals interact.
Together, these experiences taught me to see design as a system of emotional, sensory, and behavioral signals.
What I'm Exploring Now
As AI reshapes creative work, I'm interested in tools that strengthen human intention rather than overwrite it.
This question has become part of my day-to-day practice. Through my work designing experimentation platforms, creative systems, and human-in-the-loop workflows, I've seen how easily intention can be lost when systems optimize for speed or output alone.
I focus on designing systems that preserve authorship, support emotionally honest expression, and enable meaningful collaboration between humans and AI—building on my experience where maintaining human intent is essential to trust, creativity, and decision-making.
Background
My background spans front-end engineering and experimentation at lululemon, human-in-the-loop ML research, and years of theatre and photography practice, grounded by a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.