Designer who codes.
Engineer who designs.
I build the tools, systems and prototypes that let teams feel an idea before it exists.
I'm a design technologist. I live in the space between design and engineering. For the last decade I've been on the Origami team at Meta, shaping how designers prototype with real data, logic, motion, and now AI.
Before that: gestural and spatial computing at Leap Motion and Thalmic Labs. Fifteen years, one throughline: make powerful technology feel obvious and human.
Fifteen years of building.
Build and ship Origami Studio and its ecosystem, the interaction-design tool teams across Meta use to prototype with real data and logic. Alongside it I built Facebook's main prototypes, the high-fidelity working models leadership reviewed to make product calls.
Facebook Studio
Founding member of an elite team of six design directors and a VP, which grew to over 200 designers. I owned the Origami Facebook main prototype and systems here.
Design Shop
Continued the main prototype while pioneering Origami AI Access, a new AI design system for Origami.
Design Tools
Rejoined the Origami team to build its AI products, still owning Origami AI Access.
Facebook Design
Lead prototypes for Facebook's flagship product work, from app-wide redesigns to launch moments.
- Facebook 5The app-wide redesign, prototyped end to end ahead of launch.
- NewsA dedicated news tab, from early concepts to the shipped experience.
- GroupsDiscovery and connection features across the Groups surface.
- Multiple ProfilesMultiple personal profiles on one account, switching and all.
- F8Keynote prototypes built for the stage.
Design Tools
Time split between the Origami team and building Facebook's main prototypes.
- Component StoreBrowse, install and update shared components from inside Origami.
- Design systemsiOS, Android and Desktop component libraries, built and maintained for the tool.
- PatternsThe reusable interaction patterns documented on origami.design.
- Component PublishingThe flow for packaging a component and publishing it to the team.
- Network RequestCalling live APIs from a prototype, so designs run on real data.
- Design, UI and UXEditor surfaces across the patch graph, layers, inspector and viewer.
Worked exclusively for Facebook on its design tools, primarily Origami Studio, while building Facebook's lead prototypes as the team's resident expert.
Prototyped UX/UI for mobile and AAA games.
Games
Interface, interaction and motion design across mobile and AAA titles.
- FIFAInterface and interaction design for EA Sports' football franchise.
- Injustice 2Interface and motion design for the fighting title.
- Top ElevenUX and interface work for the football-management game.
- Dead AllianceFront-end and interaction design for the multiplayer shooter.
- Fast & FuriousInterface and motion design for the racing action game.
- Family GuyInterface and interaction design for the mobile game.
R&D studio tracking body motion with the latest hardware and applying it to musical AR experiences, including the Fatboy Slim live show with Plastic Pictures.
Through the studio: alpha hardware tester and app developer for Thalmic Labs' Myo armband, and alpha developer on Leap Motion's hand-tracking device, building Quartz Composer tools and Swoosh, a hand-controlled music app that shipped as a launch title on the Leap Motion App Store.
A parallel life as a DJ and producer (justaddmusic), where a lot of the instinct for rhythm, timing and motion in interfaces comes from.
Owning the tools, embedded in the teams.
I led Origami Studio and its ecosystem, the interaction-design tool teams across Meta rely on to prototype with real data and logic. That meant building the tool, growing its capabilities (including AI access), and supporting the designers who live in it every day.
I joined product teams to build their main prototypes: the living, high-fidelity models a team designs and iterates against. Sitting inside the work kept the tools honest and gave teams something real to react to.
Those prototypes became the artefact decisions were made against: the thing we walked top-level executives through to show how all the moving pieces come together, align on direction, and get the go-ahead before a line of production code was written.
The résumé, in brief.
Based in San Francisco · open to consulting, advising and conversations about design tools, prototyping and creative AI.
Prototype the feeling first.
The fastest way to understand an idea is to make a version of it you can touch. I prototype early and often.
I design for designers. Systems and instruments that make other people's best work easier to reach.
Timing, easing and feedback aren't decoration; they're how an interface explains itself.
Some of the best work isn't public.
Happy to walk you through case studies and demos in a conversation.