Supporting Facebook’s expansion into hardware products — No (public) case studies to share, but I go over one of my Meta projects during the portfolio presentation. I was the sole product designer on everything I worked on, driving the process end-to-end from research to design to ship. Some of my work: External Meta Portal’s built-in Help app Ecommerce experience for buying Meta Quest devices (formerly Oculus) in bulk

How we put RapCaviar on autopilot — Genre Weekly is a weekly feed of the latest releases in each genre, playable on Spotify. It updates automatically every week and the cover art changes when new tracks are added. I need a fresh rap song every so often to help me forget my problems, which is why I…

A visual language for clear, actionable indicators — Procurement is the process of buying goods or services for company use. Whether you’re an employee getting hoodies for your team or a professional buyer purchasing data center hardware, your request must be approved. The approval flow is complex. It’s not always a straight path, and a number of issues…

How to set goals you can actually achieve — New Year’s resolutions don’t work. I could cite some random statistic, but you probably know from experience. What happened to your 2017 resolutions? (highlight below) 😎 I achieved all of them 😊 I achieved some of them 😇 I made a valiant effort If you’re like me, you’re in the…

“Aren’t you supposed to be a designer?” — For designers, portfolios are a point of pride. You spend your entire career designing in someone’s else style; your portfolio is the one place to you’re allowed be you, a labor of love to toil over, anguish over, and celebrate when it’s finally done. …

Accelerating legal discovery with AI — Everlaw is a cloud-based ediscovery platform. When I joined, the company had been around for a while and was starting to expand rapidly. With the recent switch to a monthly release cycle and design requests pouring in from other departments, our two-person design team had more than enough to do. What’s ediscovery? …

Guiding document reviewers through a digital labyrinth — Reviewers need a way to find related documents. Reviewers want to identify relevant documents as quickly as possible. If a certain document is relevant, adjacent documents are likely to be relevant. For example, if a scandalous spreadsheet is attached to an email, we’d want to look at the other attachments to that email. …

A simple system for a complicated use case — Lawyers need to reference documents, but only the important parts. Documents are key to trial preparation, in things like building arguments and deposing witnesses. Everlaw has its own version of Google Docs called Outlines for lawyers to collaborate on materials leading up to a trial. You can embed documents directly into an Outline and view them on the spot, an…

Scanning documents on the go — Evernote Scannable is a scanner app for iOS. I joined the team shortly after its initial release, and there was plenty to do. …