We are a boutique UX design studio that helps organizations launch new or improved products and services. Learn more at nonlocal.studio.
I provide fractional and project-based services to agencies and in-house design teams. Get in touch to learn more.
Data-driven insights that turn ambiguous problems into actionable opportunities.
People-friendly products and services built through iterative prototyping and inclusive co-design.
In-the-room and remote workshops designed to strengthen client, student, and citizen capacity in design thinking.
Customized strategy to grow small and non-tech organizations’ design processes and workflows.
Get in touch with me to discuss how I can help your organization.
Research and design to make Open Supply Hub more accessible to users in the Global South, mobile-friendly, and easier for people to contribute and access supply chain data. View the case study.
Team: Nonlocal
Client: Open Supply Hub
Working with GRID Impact to facilitate Co-Creation Camp, an equity centered-design training for the United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County.
Team: GRID Impact
Client: UWABC
Working with State of California's Office of Digital Innovation to create a trusted resource for COVID-19 information while simultaneously prototyping what a best practice website looks like for state government.
Part of a cross-agency team in the California state government that prototyped and launched the California Design System, a tool that makes it easy for state teams to build digital services that meet the needs of Californians.
Leading a research sprint with an education nonprofit to to uncover insights about Pre-K families and educators in the context of early childhood literacy development. View case study.
Team: Nonlocal
Client: Springboard Collaborative
Launching One Stop Shop, a statewide platform that provides households in California access to clean energy equity programs — innovations that combat both the climate crisis and economic inequality. View case study.
Team: Blue State
Client: GRID Alternatives
Facilitating the SpaceLab Design Network, a group of educators, administrators, students and parents from across the state of Colorado who are working to tackle complex challenges in the education system. View case study.
Team: GRID Impact
Client: Colorado Education Initiative
Working with Blue State Digital to improve the user experience for seafood chefs and businesses who partner with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program. View case study.
Team: Blue State
Client: Monterey Bay Aquarium
Working with GRID Impact and the Tipping Point Community's TLab to prototype new ways that Project Legal Link connects low-income residents of San Francisco to legal aid services. View case study.
Team: GRID Impact
Client: Tipping Point Community
Working with GRID Impact and BRAC to lead a two-week design sprint focused on increasing uptake and usage of mobile money amongst women in rural Bangladesh. View case study.
Team: GRID Impact
Client: BRAC
View more case studies at nonlocal.studio.
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For the past decade, I've worked alongside organizations and the communities they serve to help them solve problems and create new digital products and services through human-centered design.
I’m a generalist with deep expertise in creating functional and people-friendly user experiences for digital products. In addition to UX design, I lead research studies, design sprints, service design projects, and training workshops for people and organizations across the globe.
As a lead designer at Grameen Foundation’s AppLab, I designed and prototyped mobile financial services for people living on less than $2.00 per day. As a result, commercial banks in East Africa were able to tailor their services to the needs of their growing rural customer base. More recently, I worked with Blue State to design and launch a platform that helps low-income households in California access the state’s ecosystem of programs fighting climate change and economic inequality (dive into the project details).
Currently, I provide project-based services for agencies and in-house design teams. I also operate Nonlocal, a boutique UX design studio that helps organizations launch new or improved products and services.
I believe design is the key to unlocking collective ingenuity and tackling tough problems.
I navigate ambiguity and come out on the other side with clarity and action.
I’ve been around the block so my design instincts are built on well-earned successes and failures.
I’m grateful for a seat at the table and don’t take that for granted.
I invite zigs and zags because that’s how worthwhile solutions are discovered.
I’m accountable to my personal biases so that my work creates genuine change.
Every single action I take is process-oriented and guided by purpose.
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