Complexity starts scattered.

Ideas. Needs. Constraints. Signals. Decisions. Processes.

§ Selected work

Shipped product work, not staged screens.

Figma · AI design tools · 2024

AI prototyping: Magic Link

The data and evaluation backbone behind AI prototyping (annotation pipeline, flow taxonomy, model bake-off), plus review-flow UX for output that is sometimes wrong.

Armada Security · AI content ops · 2026

Content Director

Designed and built a multi-agent content-ops platform: Evidence Ledger → Writer → Validator gate → Schema Planner, with Google Search Console as rank…

Armada Security · Generative imagery · 2026

Creative Director

A closed-loop 4K brand-imagery system: a QA agent scores every render against brand rules, and logged failures feed back as constraints so it stops r…

Figma · AI design tools · 2024

First Draft → Figma Make

Sole designer on the feature: the design system and evaluation data that taught the model what a good design is, and the design↔code learning that fe…

Meta · Enterprise tooling · 2022–2023

Market Review + Acquisition Integration

Two compensation tools: survey data turned into trusted market reference points, then applied to move acquired teams into the org ~80% faster.

§ Writing

Notes you can use Monday.

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May 23, 2026

Why your design system has 4000 tokens and nobody uses 200 of them

Token bloat is a process problem. Here is the audit, the conversation, and the cleanup that brought a real design system from 4000 tokens to 280.

May 23, 2026

Humanizing AI-drafted writing: a practical pass

A specific, do-it-this-Monday pass that turns AI drafts into prose that reads like a person wrote it. No magic, just edits.

May 23, 2026

Three questions to ask before you redesign anything

A short pre-flight checklist that saves redesigns from the most common kind of failure: solving the wrong problem beautifully.