I am a creative director with DEEP Ux EXPERTISE
UX Designer + Researcher + Strategist + MANAGER + FACILITATOR + Writer
I'm a user experience design professional with over 20 years of experience. I work with brands both big and small across diverse sectors to create thoughtful user experience solutions. I have expertise as a creative director, information architect, interaction designer, content strategist, UX writer, and manager.
Photo of sidewalk scene in DUMBO, Brooklyn by Robert Stribley
Previously, I worked at Razorfish and Publicis Sapient, including, for several years, with a team dedicated to Mercedes-Benz USA. I teach UX design at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and speak regularly on the subjects of user experience design and privacy by design.
Deep UX Expertise
I work with brands big and small to deliver thoughtful solutions for UX research, strategy, design, and writing.
FEATURED Writing & Presentations
In January 2021, my piece on the mistreatment of transgender asylum seekers in the United States was featured on Open Global Rights.
I have been writing about immigration in the United States since the 2016 election. Here's a listing of my writing on the subject.
Lefty Dentists and Inclusive Design, UX Collective, 6 October 2022
Designing for Privacy in an Increasingly Public World, Design Museum Week, 27 April 2022
Lefty Dentists and Inclusive Design, UX Collective, 6 October 2022
There Is No Illegal Immigrant Crisis, Huffington Post, August 2016
Mismatched: What's Wrong With the Way We Recognize Patterns, SXSW, March 2014
Collaborative Sketching for UX, UXNYU, NYU Poly, Brooklyn, NY, February 19, 2014
Everything Is Not Important, SXSW, March 9, 2013
Immigrant Song
Immigrant Song is my project about undocumented immigration within the United States. You can listen to the first episode of the podcast version of this project below.
“I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility. From this perspective, I am very much an optimist.”