Open to design systems, brand and product design roles
Digital Designer Brand & Design Systems
I lead design across three brands through a shared Figma system, then build the components and tools that carry it into everyday use.
I came to product design through visual journalism, brand systems, and front-end engineering. That range lets me translate creative intent into product rules, prototype behavior, make constraints legible, and speak the language of the team shipping it.
Systems first: one shared system across three brands, and a design system whose tokens and checks keep AI coding agents inside it. Then the products I designed and built on the same rules.
One shared system, three distinct brands. I lead design for Asheville Dispensary, Plantbar and Nightshade on a shared Figma system, then build the tools that carry it into everyday assets, like a video pipeline that replaced 3–5 hours of manual editing a week.
Tokens, component guidance and AI-assisted implementation, in a live resume you edit by chatting. Every AI change arrives as a yellow proposal you keep or reject. In private beta, shaped by its testers since day one.
Designed and shipped the content platform behind vegavengers.com — a Payload CMS system of record with an editorial dashboard, publish-triggered rebuilds, and an AI freshness checker whose every proposal waits for editor approval.
Designed and built a local-first Mac and iPhone planner where people and AI use the same typed, receipt-backed operations—keeping generated plans honest, editable, and under human control.
I build what I design, so the system reaches production intact. Code does everything it can, the model gets the smallest job it can be trusted with, and a person approves wherever the consequences are.
A script checks for new product drops before any model runs. An idle day costs about $0.30 instead of $12.
Proof: Asheville automations →The agent edits the resume, but every change arrives highlighted and versioned, for the person to accept or reject.
Proof: Ghosted →An AI checker proposes festival updates as ordinary CMS drafts. Editors publish; the AI never does.
Proof: VegAvengers →Open to design systems, brand and product design roles, remote in the US or in Portland. The fastest way to reach me is email.