Staff Product Designer · Design Systems & Design Ops

I design systems that change culture, not just code.

A decade architecting design systems that ship: token pipelines, Figma libraries, and the production code behind them, now supercharged with AI. I turn fragmented product surfaces into systems teams actually build on.

Currently building Runway at

View selected work Experience
01

Featured by Apple

An iOS 26 Liquid Glass redesign, built on Runway, shipped on launch day, and presented at Apple HQ to a live and streaming audience.

02

3× Employee of the Month

Recognized three times at LTK for outsized cross-functional impact across product, design, and engineering.

03

100% team AI adoption

Brought my entire product-design team onto Cursor and agentic AI. Every designer now ships with AI in the loop.

About

02 · Point of view

A writer-turned-designer who builds the systems other designers build on.

Nine years in editorial and brand taught me that structure is everything: the right system makes the complex feel inevitable. I bring that to design systems now: token architecture in code, Figma libraries that mirror production, and contribution models that keep teams fast without drifting. I ship PRs across iOS, web, and Android, because a system you can't ship is just a mood board.

And I build with AI at the center. I moved my whole team onto Cursor and agentic workflows, and I lean on Claude and Gemini to prototype, document, and pressure-test systems at speed. AI isn't a side experiment in how I work. It's the multiplier.

Design Systems

  • Token architecture
  • Figma variables & libraries
  • Component systems
  • Governance & contribution
  • Multi-brand theming
  • DS-to-code pipelines

Engineering & Tools

  • Tokens Studio + GitHub
  • SwiftUI · React · Vue
  • Figma · Storybook
  • PRs across platforms
  • Jira · Notion
  • Design QA in code

AI & Workflow

  • Cursor · Codex · Claude
  • Glean · Gemini
  • AI-assisted prototyping
  • Team AI enablement
  • AI in documentation
  • Prompt & agent design

Experience

03 · Career
Jan 2024 – Present
LTK · Runway Design System

Staff Product Designer, Design Ops

Solo product designer building Runway from 0 → 1

  • Lead design and development of Runway, LTK's design system, as primary IC.
  • Architected a ground-up token system of ~2,000 tokens in Tokens Studio with GitHub as source of truth: spanning iOS, web (React & Vue), Android, and Figma from one pipeline.
  • Drove 100% adoption of Cursor and agentic AI across the product-design team, embedding AI into how we design, document, and ship.
  • Built Figma libraries, a contribution model, docs site, and adoption program serving 6–10 teams across iOS, web, and multi-brand.
  • Runway powered a full app redesign featured by Apple on iOS 26 launch day and presented at Apple HQ.
  • Mentor and educator to the entire design team on design systems, advanced Figma usage, and integrating AI into everyday workflows.
Feb 2022 – Jan 2024
LTK

Product Design Manager, Growth & Conversion

People leadership + design-system founding

  • Led a team of four product designers from Associate to Staff across Conversion and Growth.
  • Created, launched, and drove adoption of Runway across a product & creative org of 20+ designers, alongside full team management.
  • Recognized as LTK Employee of the Month three times for outsized cross-functional impact.
May 2021 – Feb 2022
LTK

Senior Product Designer

  • Lead PD for all conversion efforts on the LTK consumer iOS & Android apps.
  • Designed Buy Now on LTK: the platform's first on-platform checkout, introducing new scalable revenue streams.
Sep 2019 – Apr 2021
Sling TV · Denver, CO

Product Designer

  • Lead PD overseeing acquisition across a multi-platform streaming product.
  • Designed Sling Watch Party, a net co-viewing feature shipped in response to Covid-era demand.
  • Led the responsive web redesign of Sling.com across Android, Roku, and Apple devices.
Prior · Marketing & Editorial
Sr. Manager, Community & PR · NBCUniversal · Bluprint (formerly Craftsy)2017–2019
Manager, Social Media · JCPenney · Dallas, TX2015–2017
Social Media Editor · Condé Nast · Epicurious2014
Education
UX Design, Immersive
General Assembly · 2019
BA, Advertising, Spanish & Business
University of North Texas

Selected work

04 · Case studies in progress

Deep-dive case studies are in the works. Here's the shape of what's coming.

LTK · 2024–Present Coming soon

Runway Design System

LTK's design system, led as primary IC. A ~2,000-token architecture spanning iOS, web, Android & Figma from one pipeline, with agentic AI in every designer's workflow.

Tokens Studio iOS · Web · Android Agentic AI
Runway design system, component documentation sheets for inputs, buttons, and color tokens
LTK × Apple · 2025 Coming soon

iOS 26: Liquid Glass

A full app redesign built on Runway, featured by Apple on launch day and presented at Apple HQ.

Apple Feature SwiftUI
LTK · Multi-platform Coming soon

App & Web Redesign

A unified redesign across three platforms: Creator, Consumer, and Brand, spanning app and web.

Creator · Consumer · Brand Multi-brand

Let's build something systematic.

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