Hi, I’m a frontend designer. Think of me as a developer for your design team.

My design systems work began with pattern libraries and tooling at Inkling to scale their book production. Continuing this work at Optimizely I consolidated their inconsistent user experience into a set of simply-styled components. My most intensive project, however, was as a founding member of a four-person Design Systems team at Thumbtack. With a 2018 rebranding as our starting point we built Thumbprint, a now mature combination of platform-agnostic design tokens, an icon library, components on multiple platforms, and robust documentation. I’ve continued this type of work as a consultant by building design systems for small startups.

Pointbreak solves a long-standing problem of developers repeatedly narrowing their browsers to check breakpoint layouts. A second tool inspired by a presentation from CSSConf founder Nicole Sullivan is called CSS Dig. It scrutinizes website CSS to find color, type, and spacing values that are candidates for consolidation. And with Figma's plugin architecture it’s easy to add custom functionality for designers. I’ve built a number of them.

At Thumbtack the Brand team had created a library of new illustration and to track them I had our designer enter the image IDs into a spreadsheet, using it as a database. And to preview how images would render at different sizes and aspect ratios I built an image viewer. It includes all the options our image service provides and the URL can be shared by anyone in the company to ensure illustrations are rendering as expected.