Work Index
This page is an attempt to catalogue everything I've ever worked on across disciplines. This is a living document. Back to home
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ilovecreatives
Exciting stuff in the works!
Education
Coming soon
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Well Fed
Assorted Front-End Development projects
Development
2022–Present
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Flask & Field
Shopify development in partnership with ilovecreatives Studio.
Development
2022
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STUDY by Another
Unique draggable website for onlyanother.co in partnership with ilovecreatives Studio.
Development
2022
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Stella
Landing page design & development in Wordpress in partnership with Second Marriage Studio.
Design & Development
2022
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Index
Managing virtual programming and online courses for an awesome online/IRL community.
Director of Education
2021–2022
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Sibling Industries
Creative web studio focusing on the space between design and development.
Sibling in Chief
2022
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Parsons BFA Photo
Custom Wordpress theme for the BFA Photography department with a unique shuffle feature.
Development
2022
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Second Marriage Studio
Design and development for a Cargo portfolio site with a fun alternating layout grid.
Design & Development
2022
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Code Snippets
Squarespace code snippets developed for ilovecreatives Digital Goods.
Development
2021
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The Workshop LA
Rebranded, re-designed, and developed a new website for The Workshop LA.
Design & Development
2021
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MADE by DWC
Optimization for the Downtown Women's Center LA's Shopify site.
Development
2021
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Code Demos
CSS basics and some fancy animations and rotations.
Education
2021
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Intro to Coding for Designers
Fall cohort. Taught the basics of HTML & CSS publishing via Zoom, hosted by Index.
Education
2021
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Cut Fruit Collective
Custom Shopify theme with fun cursors, animations, and a blog.
Development
2021
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megu.space v2
Jekyll template transforming megu.space to a flat file digital garden.
Ruby, Jekyll, Liquid, CSS
2021
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Digital Garden Template
Open source template for publishing thoughts from Obsidian markdown files to a flat file website.
Ruby, Jekyll, Liquid, CSS
2021
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Cut Fruit Collective
Squarespace development for Save Our Chinatowns rebrand, including CSS animations and custom cursor effects
Squarespace, CSS
2021
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Intro to Coding for Designers
6 week long virtual course in partnership with Index NYC—Spring cohort.
Education
2021
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Save Our Chinatowns
Advisor during Lunar New Year Zine Launch
Consulting
2021
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megu.space v1
Personal space for creative research with custom Wordpress field for "Current Music"
Wordpress, PHP, CSS
2021
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Feminist Fonts
Zine I hand-bound and sold at SFZF. Still available as digital download or printed copy on Gumroad.
Personal Project
2020
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SF Zine Fest
Virtual vendor selling art prints & zines from my Etsy shop during Cyber Fest 2020
Vending
2020
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Reali
Led product vision and design for Buyer segment of real estate mobile app, web app, and internal tools. Won an award for "Exceptionalism".
Product Manager, Product Designer
2019-2020
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SkinCarisma
Consulted on UX design, usability, and new features for a skincare ingredient database site.
UX Design
2018
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DesignLab
Virtual mentor for students taking UX Academy, Design 101, Typography, UI Design courses, and a Career Coach for graduates.
Education
2015-2018
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Soundboxing
User Research and Design for a VR Music game.
Design
2017
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Crew App
I worked on the sign in flow, web app navigation, and designed concepts for v0 of an enterprise dashboard.
Product Design
2017
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Blossom Botanicals
Launched a cannabis brand focusing on natural plant-based terpenes and additive-free oils
Co-Founder, Brand Design
2016-2017
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Prosper
Designed lots of graphs and nerdy financial flows for investor products during a big company rebrand
UX Design
2015-2016
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General Assembly
As a TA for the UX Design Immersive, I helped students with their projects, which inspired me to give a workshop on Sketch
Education
2015
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StyleSeat
Worked on mobile app, web app, payment processing, and lead gen products
UX Design, Email Development, Web Development
2014-2015
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UC Berkeley
Transferred in to study Philosophy, ended up switching to Cognitive Science before taking a leave of absence to work full time.
Student
2012–2014
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Airseed
First tech internship. Wrote data parsers in RegEx, designed marketing collateral, and helped with UX for first mobile app.
UX Design
2013
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Song Tea & Ceramics
Helped launch the brand and open brick & mortar store with photography, writing, and social media work. After opening, I sold tea IRL and fulfilled e-commerce orders.
Sales, Tea Service, Web Development
2013
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Red Blossom Tea Co.
Brewed gong fu tea and taught the basics to Chinatown tour groups, along with fulfilling online orders and packing tea bags.
Sales, Tea Service
2010-2012
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California College of the Arts
Majored in film photography. Used the color processor a lot. Also messed with an Arduino and Max/MSP.
Student
2009–2010
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Lupicia Fresh Tea
Brewed and sold Japanese-style tea in both Stonestown and SF Market Street locations. They had really good Darjeeling too.
Sales, Tea Service
2009
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De Anza College
While studying film photography, I also worked as the assistant to the lab technician.
Lab Assistant
2008-2009
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"Sales Associate"
Various part time jobs throughout high school across industries.
Sales, Food Service
2005-2009
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"Freelance" Development
Part hobbyist, part CSS specialist, 100% in middle school and unable to accept money legally for my work. Designed and developed fully custom websites using fluid CSS principles inspired by CSS Zen Garden.
HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
2003-2005
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Xanga layout designer
Developed and published code snippets for the now-defunct weblog site. Involved slicing up images to create image maps, replacing every part of the site's UI manually, and coding together a string of hacks in the wild web of the 00's.
HTML, CSS, JS
2003-2005
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Photoshop Elements 2.0 Tutorials
Since I couldn't afford Photoshop 7.0 (pre Creative Suite), I used Photoshop Elements to hack together solutions for the missing image mask and pen tool features. Published them on my personal website, where I also provided free subdomains to other young designers.
Education
2003-2004
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~Tilde Era
Before CSS got popular, I made basic websites hosted on various ~tilde username sites. I used
table
,iframe
, and image maps. Used Microsoft FrontPage and Notepad plain text editor.HTML
1996-2002