When I Excel

Identifying & Solving the most critical user experience problems

Vision work (but near future, must be grounded in reality)

High stake interactions (key points in flows for business)

Small teams

Research & Data driven

Pragmatic iterative approach to product building

Open and honest communication

Direct communication and transparency from leadership (aligned on goals)

Balancing business & creative goals

Consumer focused experiences

What I want to do next

Contribute to product strategy, vision and roadmap

Support a design team by helping them

  • Grow their skills

  • Collaborate smoothly across cross functional roles (PM, Eng, Research)

  • Connect person professional growth goals with business opportunities and needs

  • Establish a team culture that is supportive and healthy

  • Ship work we are all proud of

Continue to grow as a leader by

  • Building strong relationships across roles and teams within our company

  • Helping to establish best practices for employee reviews & career support, design systems, and workload planning & prioritization.

What I believe

Inspiration happens during the Process.

A healthy daily, weekly, quarterly process is critical to success (and sanity).

Great ideas come while you are doing the work.

Stability from a regular process can help a team stay grounded and productive.

Clear reliable process also reduces confusion and improves communication across the team.

Environment fosters growth (or decline)
& determines quality of shipped product.

Team relationships

  • Clear communication and expectations between roles (Eng, PM, Research & Design).

  • Understand and respect for differences in each role.

  • Build healthy collaboration & trust by finding overlap in goals (“we” instead of “us/them”).

  • Have hard conversations early.

Encouragement & appreciation across roles

Progress valued over perfection

Alignment with leadership is critical for success.

Clear prioritization and focus

Upfront communication

Have hard conversations quickly

Avoid wasted work & frustration

Designers must learn to build relationships and influence.

A design leader’s role is to understand and influence business direction.  

A good idea is not enough, it must have XFN support.

Not everyone is thinking the same thing.  Show visuals & interactions.

Give and take, trust is earned on both sides.

This is especially important as designers become more senior.

Setting people up for success is a manager’s most important job.

Clearly defined goals for team and individuals.

Personal buy-in from individuals.

Finding opportunity for people to grow in ways they care about.

Protecting from organizational chaos and noise.

Ensuring projects are set up to ship and succeed (time not wasted).

Ensuring design process is possible (iteration and optimization is essential)

empower by giving Clarity & Control

Demystify calibrations and career growth

Empower each individual to track and maintain their own success

Help keep personal and professional growth in mind, as ICs focus on the daily work.

There should be no surprises at review time.

Each person is an individual

Everyone has their own approach and goals.

Understand and treat each person individually.

Help each person connect their personal and professional growth with the available business opportunity and goals.