About me.

I approach every day with compassion, an open-mind, and a healthy dose of curiosity. I apply these same principles to my design process, with the intention of creating meaningful experiences for all. I enjoy crafting solutions for real problems and would rather focus on how or why a solution might work, rather than why it won't. Design should lead with “yes…and?”

Over the last year, I’ve focused my efforts on supporting strategic design updates to a legacy Microsoft product, supporting its AI transformation and integration with Microsoft’s AI Hub. I’m now leading the design efforts of the product’s new agent experience, the AI Learning agent.

Prior to that,
I spent 3+ years on a horizontals design team, contributing to a design system, suite platform guidance and coherence, and product direction for Microsoft’s employee experience suite. Through this work, I’ve developed and flexed innovative problem-solving and versatile design capabilities that have been applied to high-impact and high-priority projects.

My background in human rights and advocacy fuels my belief that t
echnology should be used to make the world a better place. I want to listen to understand, empower users to achieve their goals, and use storytelling to drive empathy. 

Specialties.

Product Design

UX/UI Design

Web Design

Mobile Design

User Interaction & Experience

Converational UI Design

Prompt Engineering

Large Language Models

Concepting & Ideation

Rapid Prototyping

Responsive Design

Design Systems

Design Strategy

Horizontals Design

Human Computer Interaction

Storytelling

Design Mentorship

Experience.

MICROSOFT

Product Designer II・June 2022 - Present
Product Designer I・March 2021 - May 2022

FREELANCE

Product Designer・May 2020 - March 2021

PROJECTS

Microsoft・AI Learning Agent / Copilot-First Experiences
Microsoft・Viva Learning
Microsoft・Viva Foundations
Microsoft・Viva Onboarding
Microsoft・Viva Insights

Freelance・Project Lela, AdLiven, Centre for Youth and Development, Dallas PR Gal, FanFood, Chameleon

Awards.

US PATENT

Onboarding Management Engine in a Human Resources
Management System

Patent Number: 20230419267
Awarded Dec 28, 2023

Microsoft Service Award - Trailblazer Category

Awarded Dec 2024

When I’m not pushing pixels, I’m…

mentoring Designers on ADPList

scouring Seattle for Texas-worthy breakfast tacos 

listening to a true crime or comedy podcast  (The Alarmist is my fave) 

nurturing my (totally healthy) plant obsession

settling in to a good book  (any suggestions?)

finding my new favorite coffee shop

traveling the PNW with my two Golden Retriever pups

Person with a backpack viewing framed posters on a gallery wall next to a staircase.
Two people smiling in front of the Microsoft building, holding visitor badges, with a green landscape in the background.
A woman sitting on a wooden bench in front of a large abstract metal sculpture with spiral shapes. She is wearing a beige coat and black pants, with her arms spread wide in an outdoor setting, possibly near a cafe or modern building.
Two golden retrievers sniffing a red flower on a sidewalk.
A woman in a black coat and jeans inside a greenhouse, surrounded by potted plants and baskets of apples on wooden shelves.