I started with products you could hold. Now I design ones you use with your thumbs.

I trained as an industrial designer — shaping physical products where constraints are unforgiving and every millimeter is negotiated. The same instincts translated cleanly to software: reducing cognitive load, fighting for clarity under pressure, and treating craft as the baseline, not the finish.

Today I work as a Design Engineer — the person who designs the interface and ships the front-end. For early-stage teams that can't afford handoffs between three contractors, this is a meaningful difference: fewer meetings, tighter iterations, and interfaces that survive contact with real engineering.