Made in America · Ad Hoc with GSA and OMB
Making Federal Procurement Waivers Public
A public one-stop shop for Buy American waivers, replacing a slog through the Federal Procurement Data System.
I design public systems that make buried information findable.
Fifteen years spent taking information that matters — federal procurement, patents, insurance, philosophy — and giving it a structure people can actually navigate. I designed the original Made in America website for GSA and the Office of Management and Budget. It's live at madeinamerica.gov, still doing the job it was built to do.
Featured Projects
Innovation Alpha · Aon, then Moat Metrics
Turning Patent Portfolios into a Readable Signal
Sole designer on an enterprise platform that reads a company's intellectual property and tells you how strong it actually is.
Khora · Palinode Productions
An Information Architecture Its Users Built Themselves
Thirteen people, a card sort, and a tree test decided how an open-source philosophy platform would be organized.
How I work
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Structure should be discovered, not assumed
I don't hand a team my best guess at a navigation scheme. I interview the people who'll use the thing, watch them group it themselves, then test whether the structure I derived actually holds. It usually needs fixing, which is the point of finding out early.
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02
Accessible by construction, not by audit
Accessibility that shows up at the end of a project is a bug report. I design against WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 from the first wireframe, and treat plain language as part of the same job — a page nobody can understand isn't accessible either.
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Systems that survive one maintainer
I've been the only designer on products big enough to need a design system. That constraint taught me to build systems that stay coherent when the person maintaining them is busy, which is most of the time.
Read more →What shipped
- madeinamerica.govLive, public, and in use by American manufacturers
- Symetra's Digital Customer ExperienceLaunched December 2020, moving an insurer off paper
- Team Nation12,000+ users across all 50 states and 5 countries, 5 million playbook questions answered
- ArmoryThe design system I built, adopted by product teams beyond my own
Designer. Builder. Lifelong learner.
I've spent fifteen years designing digital experiences that solve real problems — a public procurement site for GSA and OMB, an enterprise platform that reads patent portfolios, an insurer's move from paper to digital. What connects them is a habit rather than an industry: I like finding out what people actually need, then building a structure that gets them there without a fight.
When I'm not designing, I play competitive cornhole and train for marathons.