Enterprise SaaS and data-dense operational platforms. The harder the domain, the better the fit.
01 / 2025
A thousand-person procurement organization running on personal spreadsheets. Ten-plus modules, one classification model, no mandate to force adoption.
02 / 2023
A personal safety product where the interaction model had to work under stress, in a pocket, without a screen — and where being noticed was itself a failure state.
03 / 2019
A localization provider in 30+ countries where one project crossed five disconnected systems, each interpreting metadata differently. 204 workflow variants, reduced to a rule-driven framework.
04 / 2018
Commercial leasing run across spreadsheets, CRMs and manual coordination. Five modules, one property model, and a search engine that had to explain its own reasoning.
My value is the span: product strategy at one end, shipped interface detail at the other, and the domain model holding the two together. These are the principles that keep that range honest.
The best outcomes get set up early, in the middle of things: learning how the business actually runs, who decides, what the words mean, where the data lives. Foundations laid there scale; screens drawn without them get redrawn.
I take products from a blank page: discovery, the domain model, the product strategy, the first components. I also join platforms already in motion, where the stack and constraints are fixed. Either way the work starts at the foundation, not the screens.
I check technical feasibility before promising anything and prototype fast, lately with AI in the loop: a working prototype ends debates that static specs keep open. With leadership, I connect those prototypes to time-to-decision, data integrity, and risk, so design gets weighed as a business instrument.
Craft tells you what should work; testing tells you whether it did. Depending on the question, I reach for contextual observation, moderated usability tests, tree tests for the information architecture, or an instrumented pilot, and the result decides what ships. Every outcome on this site is labeled measured, modeled, or usability tested, because I hold my own claims to the same standard.
Operational screens hold a person's attention for more hours than any consumer app, and that exposure deserves finish: typography with a rhythm, motion that explains instead of decorates. I enjoy this part of the work unapologetically. Exhibit: the site you are reading.
Where the depth above gets applied. Each area opens into the thinking, the skills, and the work behind it.
Operational software at organizational scale.
Platforms with inherited domain models, multi-role approval logic, and screens people work inside all day. Most of the case studies on this site live here.
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Tokenized foundations that survive their second year.
Systems built over the stack a team already has, documented from both the design and the engineering side, with the adoption model that keeps them from forking.
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From ambiguous mandate to shipped product.
Discovery that survives contact with the org chart, strategy documents leadership signs, and first versions built to earn their second: the zero-to-one half of the practice.
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The structure that lets design teams deliver.
Operating systems for design in governed organizations: cadences, documentation, and mentoring that grow a team without pulling its lead out of the work.
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Products where feel is the product.
The origin of the interaction instincts: social systems for players, race loops built around session length, and marketplace mechanics designed for trust.
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Interfaces for systems that reason.
Conversational agents across text, voice, and video; computer-vision patterns piloted with engineering; scores and reasoning made legible to the people who act on them.
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The shape of the win repeats across engagements: less manual work, faster delivery, adoption that holds. Each figure below comes from one of the case studies and states how it was established: measured in production, modeled from workflows, or observed in testing.
65%
less manual data processing after consolidation
Measured · procurement platform · first 6 months, pilot
30%
faster feature delivery from design system reuse
Measured · localization platform · reported by engineering
60–70%
shorter proposal preparation cycles
Modeled · real estate platform · MVP-stage workflows
95%
first-time task success in usability testing
Usability tested · safety device, first-use activation
In-house, on enterprise or B2B SaaS products with real domain complexity. I lead design teams and stay a working contributor; what I am not looking for is a purely managerial seat away from the craft.
Three to nine months inside a product team, owning a complex surface area end to end: usually a platform rebuild, a data-heavy module, or a workflow that has resisted several attempts.
Establishing or repairing a tokenized foundation, particularly where a third-party component library is already in production and cannot be replaced.