✌🏼Hello! I’m Andy, a Seattle-based product designer.

You’ll probably understand me better through some things I enjoy:

  • Solving complex problems
  • Decisions that are guided by thoughtful research
  • Working on diverse, equitable, inclusive teams
  • Good product copywriting
  • Tacos al pastor

I currently lead Product Design at Karat, where we’re building a more human-centered technical interview at scale.

If you want to connect or see more of my work, reach out on LinkedIn or Twitter.

To read about what I’ve been up to, just keep scrolling ↓

2021

R&D on the future of a browser-based development environment for technical interviews

Read the case study coming soon

Developer Tools | Karat

2020

Got nominated along with my team for Geekwire’s UX Design of the Year Award

And I wrote some reflections about the experience on Karat’s blog

Karat

Streamlined the quality control process to remove bias and improve feedback loops

Quality Control Checklist | Karat

2019

Surfaced actionable updates to recruiters so their candidates wouldn’t get lost in process

Active Recruiting Funnel & Analytics Dashboard | Karat

Collaborated deeply with engineering to migrate from patchwork, non-compliant style files to an a11y-friendly design system as a microservice

Read the case study coming soon

Vera Pattern Library | Karat

2018

Simplified a complex value prop narrative into three basic steps

New Client User Onboarding | Karat

Introduced a paradigm-shifting data model change to existing users while avoiding churn

Candidacy Model Refactor | Karat

Tried and (mostly) failed to build a live event assessment tool for a stakeholder halfway around the world, but learned a lot along the way

Live Event Code Challenges | Karat

2017 and earlier

Took a break from design work to film and produce a short film for recruiting prospective interviewers

Interviewer Profile Video | Karat

Wrote up some thoughts on my first 8 months at a startup

Remote life has changed A BIT since writing this blog post, but it’s still a pretty good snapshot of who/where I was at the time

8 Lessons from My First 8 Months | Whitespace

Grew more as a designer in 3 months than in the previous 3 years combined

Whitespace Product Design Fellowship - 2016 Cohort

Led a by-the-book Google Design Sprint to validate a new ed-tech product offering

Lesson Book | PlanetBravo

Well that’s surely enough about me for now, so here are some recs for other things you might be interested in: