Designing for AI with AI – AI Canvas & Geomap

by admin | Apr 10, 2026 |

AI Canvas & Geomap — Designing a Map Widget for Two AI Surfaces Designed a map visualization that serves two fundamentally different contexts — an interactive AI Canvas widget and a concise MCP-delivered image for AI IDEs — while exploring 11 tile styles and...

AI Tools & Team Enablement — Extending the Design System Beyond Components

by admin | Mar 18, 2026 |

Built the infrastructure to onboard an entire product design team onto AI-assisted workflows, connecting them to the design system, shared skills, and a vibe coding environment using real components.   Role    Design Systems Lead Timeline    January 2026 – Present...

Product Tokenization and Theming

by admin | Mar 13, 2026 |

Bringing ThousandEyes into the Cisco Design Language Role    Design Systems LeadTimeline    Q3 2024 – Q2 2026Team    UX Engineering, Design Systems (me), frontend engineers, 20+ product teamsKey Outcome    Enabled ThousandEyes to achieve visual alignment with...

Creating a Scalable Design System

by admin | Mar 16, 2021 |

Wells Fargo’s Commercial Electronic Office processed over $11 trillion annually — but the design system behind it wasn’t built to scale. Theming required changes at the component level because no global token layer existed. A team of 30 product designers...

Accessible Color Palette for Data Visualizations

by admin | Dec 3, 2020 |

When we set out to make a new data visualization suite accessible to visually impaired users, the team assumed patterns would be required — small hatching or texture fills to differentiate chart segments for color-blind users. User testing proved that assumption...