Product ⁠· ⁠Creative Tech

A Mac and Windows app that indexes a 79-year-old photographer's images across external drives, with search, tagging, and duplicate detection.

A Claude Code MCP server that wires Claude into the Unreal Editor, so it can read Blueprints, automate the editor, and pull Epic's docs on demand.

Designing the simulation half of Stormbreaker, a planning and wargaming tool for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, working directly with military planners.

Designing how users read and control thousands of moving objects in a real-time simulation engine, from info cards to custom icons and 3D models.

Designing a desktop, VR, and web app for recording gameplay and watching it back from inside the game, through its Steam Early Access release.

Designing the 3D model catalog and object placement for Dynamics 365 Layout, a HoloLens app for planning real spaces with full-scale holograms.

My independent practice: I help clients find the problems worth solving, then design the solution, and build it when they want that too.

Continuing Stormbreaker's design at SMX: helping U.S. Indo-Pacific Command planners plan and wargame digitally, replacing a largely paper process.

Designing NeighborNET, Brilliant By Nature's mobile app for neighbors sharing resources in the hours after a disaster, before official help arrives.

Taking a client's mobile app concept from a design-thinking workshop to a tested, high-fidelity Figma prototype, updated between user interviews.

A volunteer IxDA Seattle project for Seattle's transportation department: helping riders without smartphones get transit information.

Reworking combat interactions, menu flow, and monetization for a free-to-play mobile mech game ahead of its publisher showcase.

My first personal case study: tracing a bus ticket that wouldn't scan to three small failures in the Transit GO app, then redesigning those screens.

Six weeks with a team of Stanford innovators, finding new uses for Autodesk's photogrammetry and experience-creation software.

Designing the camera tutorial for the Ratchet & Clank PS4 remake, woven into the story so setting controls doesn't feel like a tutorial.