Hi, I’m Amanda!
 
I’m a UX/Product designer with 5+ years of professional experience designing web and mobile products for brands like Volkswagen, DTE Energy, Rocket Pro, Jack Daniel's, and Jimmy John's. At Detroit Labs, I took client projects from discovery research and strategy through shipped web and native iOS and Android apps.
 
I do my best work where research, strategy, and craft meet. I aim to understand what users actually need, align stakeholders around evidence, and partner closely with engineers to ship. Beyond design, I planned design capacity and oftentimes led project management on my projects, ran design reviews with developers, and built a visual QA handoff process to help become a standard template at Detroit Labs.
 
Outside of client work, I spent 4+ years as Program Director and Design Lead at Develop for Good, matching student volunteers and nonprofit partners and running events like orientation and Demo Day to help student teams build digital products for meaningful nonprofits.
 
Born and raised in the Bay Area, my path into design wasn't linear. I double majored in Biochemistry and Psychology at UC San Diego and started out in scientific research and healthcare before teaching myself UX design. That background still shapes how I work: I lean on evidence, ask a lot of questions, and care about building products people can trust.