Design & code is my craft.
I am designer and developer, currently at Google Labs. I have designed and built several web brands from scratch, most as independent projects for public good that have generated millions of views and signups.
I've designed, built, and launched products at The New York Times, IDEO, and Google.
Dr. B
Dr. B is a healthcare company that started as a COVID vaccine standby list In January 2021. Coincidentally, I was building the same idea – a centralized standby list – under the name VaxStandby. It was acquired by Dr. B in February 2021; Within two weeks, I redesigned and rebuilt Dr. B's homepage. We pivoted to a telehealth company soon afterwards.
VaxStandby
My friend Ian Macartney and I started VaxStandby after we heard news of broken storage freezers and long lines outside pharmacies. I designed and built the website; Ian built out the backend.
We launched Feb 1, 2021. In the two weeks we were live, we garnered 125K signups. After learning about Dr. B we decided it didn’t serve anybody to duplicate efforts and have two national standby lists, so we closed VaxStandby and joined Dr. B.
ballot.fyi
Ballot.fyi is a non-partisan, non-boring guide to the California ballot propositions, often numerous and consequential. I created the site as a solo side project in 2016, writing all its content. People shared the site widely and in the one month of October 2016, the site saw 1M unique visitors.
The project received a $75K grant from The Knight Foundation in 2017 to add San Jose and San Francisco to its coverage for the 2018 Midterms. In 2020, I took a sabbatical from The New York Times to cover the 2020 California props again.
In addition to providing practical information for voters, ballot.fyi is my way of pushing how journalism can be more approachable and trustworthy.
2020
2018
With a grant from the Knight Foundation I teamed up with Yvonne Leow to start a new local media company, By The Bay. We covered the primary and general elections in 2018 for San Jose, San Francisco, and California.
ballot.fyi (2018 general)
By The Bay (2018 general)
By The Bay (2018 primary)
2016
The original ballot.fyi was born out of frustration that we were tasked with making heavy but often uninformed decisions at the voting booth. In the first day, 125K people visited the yet-to-be-completed site.
Other, non-web things I've done
- Squad, a device to synchronize high-speed photography for NYT
- An artist-in-residency at Autodesk where I made shiny things
- A patented physical interface for an autonomous car
- A novel electrical connector for garments for Google and Levi Strauss
- Project Bloks, a toy set by Google to teach kids principles of programming
- 3x taught "Design for Inclusion" at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design summer school
- 2x taught "Objects and Spaces" at California College of the Arts
- Blumen Lumen, an art installation of giant origami flowers
- Edison, an art installation of 100 controlled, suspended bulbs