About

Most products don't fail at the interface. They fail in the room that built them.

I'm a senior product designer. My work sits one level above the screen — in the stakeholders, workflows, and politics that decide whether what ships actually gets used.

That's the pattern across every engagement: a room full of people with different, often conflicting, priorities, and no shared direction yet. Aligning seven partner organizations behind one roadmap for CGIAR's AI Hub, building a network of design practitioners across 12 research centres, running a live prompting workshop for scientists who've never touched an AI tool — different rooms, same job.

I use AI where it earns its place: first-pass research synthesis, and getting a rough idea to a working prototype in days instead of weeks. It doesn't replace the research or the judgment call after — everything ships human-reviewed.

Four things stay constant regardless of domain — healthcare, international research and NGO work, enterprise SaaS, field operations:

01

Research first. Always.

02

Test before it's comfortable.

03

Iterate without ego.

04

Hand off designs that don't need explaining.

In practice
Disciplines
UX & service design, user research & usability testing, stakeholder mapping & facilitation, design systems
Domains
Healthcare, international research & NGO, enterprise SaaS, field operations
AI, specifically
First-pass research synthesis and rapid prototyping — always human-reviewed, never left to run unchecked
Currently
Service Design Consultant, CGIAR AI Hub — Mar 2026–Present
Career timeline

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2018 – 2019

UX Designer — Northlane Digital

Early enterprise SaaS work — dashboard and workflow design for a B2B reporting tool, first exposure to designing around messy internal processes rather than clean user flows.

2019 – 2021

Product Designer — Meridian Health Systems

Moved into healthcare product design — clinician-facing tools, where the real constraint was never the interface but the shift-change handoffs around it.

2021 – 2023

Senior UX Researcher — Fieldworks Cooperative

Field research for low-connectivity, low-literacy contexts — usability testing that had to work offline, in the field, not in a lab.

2023 – 2026

UX & Service Design Lead — Global Access Initiative

Multi-partner NGO programme design — the direct precedent for the stakeholder-alignment work now underway at CGIAR.

Mar 2026 – Present

Service Design Consultant — CGIAR AI Hub

Real, current engagement — aligning 13,000+ scientists across 80 countries and 12 research centres to trust AI tools. Full case study linked from Selected Work.

Working with me

If the interface is the only thing on the table, I'll ask what's happening around it.

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