I led the redesign of Trulia’s Android app, aimed to incorporate Google’s material design guidelines as well as Trulia’s own visual design language. 

This launch includes a horizontal navigation bar, which replaced a previous iteration of the “hamburger” navigation. This was to streamline the actions available.

The redesigned app was selected as one of the Best Apps of 2015 by Google. 

Discover is a feature on Trulia that groups homes together by things like home characteristics (Victorian), neighborhood information (Low Crime), and personalization (Homes You'll Like). 

Collaboration is a way for home buyers and renters to find homes with their significant others and share a saved folder of favorite homes.

I worked with two other designers to come up with a user flow that carried over across web, mobile web, and native apps. After establishing the flow, I was responsible for the UI for Android platform, as well as ongoing iterations on multiple platforms as the user flow and UI was improved after launch.  

I often took advantage of a quarterly hackathon at Trulia, and developed this concept of "Hot or Not" as a way to onboard a user and gather preferences to return better search results. 

This concept seeded the idea for a discovery feature, where homes are grouped into collections such as "Near Safe Homes" or "Near Parks"; the feature is now a main part of the whole product experience, and has led to a 20% increase in leads submitted to real estate agents from home buyers. 

I relish the opportunity to come up with product ideas and to work with a developer to prototype them. Even better is when they get implemented. 

After starting out with 5 concepts for the watch, what was implemented was a straightforward search experience as Google was pushing for products that used the map feature. 

In 2012, I became co-founder and designer of Bravo Your City, a user-generated publishing platform. The concept grew out of the founder's background as a travel writer, and we wanted to give an easy platform for anyone to share local stories and to express a sense of place. 

Stories were published on the web, but the ultimate goal was to export them in an e-book format that would be sold on Amazon Kindle and Apple Newsstand.  

AFAR Media is a startup travel media company in San Francisco. My task was to identify customer and product goals through user research, and to revamp the user experience and interface for a user-generated travel guide for web and mobile applications.

The AFAR mobile app helps travelers find things to do in a given city. Travelers can also post a recommendation through the app.

Although by now the UI is dated (skeumorphiastic!), I'm particularly proud of this project because it came out of user research and analysis, and was the beginning of AFAR's seamless experience across all platforms. 

Promotional notecards for Q LTD, a design firm in Ann Arbor, MI.

Each card had a different take on the letter Q, representing the different faces of the letter, and the personality of the firm. The opposite side of the card was blank with the company contact information.