Seasoned product designer with a decade of experience in crafting products that focus on detail, usability, and a healthy dose of play. Internet explorer and strong believer in the private indie web. Open for new opportunities.
GIPHY 2017 - 2024
7+ years of experience in making the world a loopier place by guiding the design of GIPHY’s product suite through unprecedented growth. Accolades include a handful of Webby awards, acquisitions, and international legal battles.
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Senior Staff Product Designer
2023 - Current
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Staff Product Designer
2020 - 2023
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Senior Product Designer
2017 - 2020
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GIPHY App: Multi-stage redesign of the original GIPHY app and consolidation of 3 legacy side-apps. Persistent iteration on a Top 50 app across creation tools and experience.
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GIPHY.com: Years of continuous user improvements and product health to one of the most popular webpages on the internet.
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GIPHY SDK / Developers: Product suite & documentation for integrating GIPHY into thousands of third-party applications. You’ve likely used one or two of them!
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GIPHY Internal Tools: Design ownership of internal products assisting GIPHY's content and moderation teams. Advocate of task efficiency and content safety.
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GIPHY For Marketers: Product campaign introducing GIPHY’s new advertising platform. Includes landing page, communication, & collaboration on an internal reporting system.
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GIPHY Design System: Led creation and ongoing maintenance of GIPHY's design system and component library within Figma and other tools.
HUGE, Inc Summer 2015 - Spring 2017
Worked with a range of clients, from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. Scope of design included product innovation, strategy, and launch experience.
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Senior Product Designer
2017
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Product Designer
2015 - 2016
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HUGE Schools
Summer, 2015
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Muzik: Concept through launch of companion app control experience for the headphone startup, Muzik. Also included marketing and product webpages.
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LG: Product strategy and conceptual prototyping of an OS for LG’s upcoming phone. Focused on multi-tasking & contextual-personalization.
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American Express, HP, Apple, Verizon, Comcast, Zelle Pre-Product, HUGE Cafe: UX, VD, and Prototyping for product campaigns, pitches, and celebrations.
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HUGE Displays: Collaboration with an internal team of tinkerers on the design and programming of in-office displays across HUGE’s 12 offices.
Dark Igloo 2015 - Ongoing
Continuous collaborator at/with Dark Igloo, providing various assists on design and other very-cool creative endeavors.
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Designer
2015
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Photographer, Drone Operator
2019
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Continuous Collaborator, Friend
2015 - Ongoing
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Self-E-Wear: Web/Event design and photo for the only virtual reality experience with the power to Look at You!™. Debuted at F5 Fest in 2015.
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Duality Derby: Web experience, drone cinematography, & photo for the studio’s first 2020 short film about using branding & design as a vehicle for self discovery.
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SeeHearNow: Web design & development for 2021 launch of a series of short videos exploring the natural world's inner harmonies.