Hello.

I design for how people learn. I work at the intersection of product, strategy, and education. Lately I’m obsessed with how AI can deepen human connection, rather than sever it.

My north star is a counterintuitive idea: AI should deepen the struggle, not eliminate it — and deepen human connection, not replace it. I design learning products, build with engineers hand-in-hand, and think a lot about nerdy stuff like metacognition and Bloom’s Taxonomy.

As a founding employee at Honor Education, an EdTech company, I have spent the last six years learning about learning in a dynamic, crazy-changing world. My roles have morphed, from naming a startup to becoming its Head of Product Design to creating strategic product plans leveraging AI throughout the platform.

My focus has been designing tools that catch learners at the moment of engagement, then invite them to think harder and debate deeply, not click faster.

  • My work lives at the intersection of learning science and system design. At Honor, we are busy designing how an organization’s culture gets encoded into a knowledge graph — and how that knowledge flows back out to learners through an AI coach, a curriculum, and a notebook. I think about where value is created (the moment of genuine curiosity), how to preserve it (private reflection, not just reactions), and what the product owes the person down the line (evidence of growth).

  • I believe AI’s biggest risk in education isn’t replacing teachers — it’s eliminating the productive struggle and short-circuiting the debates that make us sharper. The friction of working through an idea — arguing with a peer, sitting with a question, changing your mind — is where genuine understanding forms. My design philosophy: AI should deepen human connection, not sever it. At Honor, that meant building a coach that catches a learner at the moment of real curiosity and invites them to think harder and engage more honestly with the people around them — not click past the hard part. A concept graph tracks what you actually understood; a notebook preserves the struggle; a social feed surfaces who else cared about the same idea, and why they disagreed.

  • I strategize and prototype in Figma with variables and logic, and I design in constant conversation with engineers — not to hand off specs, but to figure out what’s possible together. I’ve learned that the best product questions emerge when design and engineering are in the same room before anything is decided. I know what I don’t know, and I’ve found that knowing that clearly is often the most useful thing I can offer a technical team.

More about me

I started as a brand designer — Pentagram in New York with Michael Bierut, then Pinterest in San Francisco leading a team of twenty. Great companies, genuinely fun work. But I started getting stuck on the same question: what happens after the design lands? What does the person on the other side do with it?

That question pulled me into product. For the last six years I've been at Honor Education as Head of Product Design, building AI tools that help people learn harder, think more critically, and connect more honestly with the people around them.

I also have taught at Parsons and CCA, which has kept me honest about what learning actually feels like from the inside. I grew up guiding rivers in Oregon. I've lived in a dozen cities and three countries, and I now spend most of my time in Barcelona — and yes, that really is my last name!