When I joined Circle as its third product designer, Circle Pay was available on iOS, Android, and the web. With my arrival, each designer could focus on a single platform. In my case, that meant our oldest app, Circle Pay for web. As I tackled the design of new features, I also sought to untangle inconsistencies, improve our internal design and development workflows, and build a solid, scalable foundation for the app’s future.
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Halloween 2017: LEGO Batman
One evening, I stumbled upon a video of an elaborate cardboard LEGO minifig costume. As fantastic as it was, I recall thinking that “costume” was generous, as the person within couldn’t actually walk. I set out to design and build my own version, complete with fully-functioning legs. But I couldn’t make just *any* LEGO character… it was Halloween, after all. I decided to work in black (and sometimes, very dark gray). This is the story of the LEGO Batman of Boston.
Intel gesture-control prototype
In 2013, a team within Intel’s R&D division called the “Perceptual Computing Group” approached Fresh Tilled Soil with a curious bit of technology: a depth-sensing camera that could recognize objects in 3D space. Paired with the right software, this would enable computers to understand human hand gestures. My colleagues and I designed and developed a fully-functioning prototype application that would demonstrate the technology’s extraordinary potential.
Animation & Video, Illustration
How to move $1M in USDC
In early 2019, Circle’s chief evangelist Anders Brownworth and I collaborated on an animated educational video. The project's goal was to demonstrate how USD Coin could facilitate fast, low-cost international transfers between exchanges.
Circle Invest "Explore" illustrations
Circle Invest isn’t just the best way to buy crypto, it’s the best way to learn about it. The "Explore" section of our app features approachable, informative content to help you develop your understanding of the world of blockchain. For each article, I’ve created a unique editorial illustration.
Writing, Personal Projects, Product Design
Sketch tip: BYO RGB HEX
As a Product Designer & Illustrator at Circle, it’s my job to manage and grow our custom icon set. I’ve built each icon according to the system Steve Stone outlined in Icon Sets with color override in Sketch. It's great …with one caveat. Sometimes, a designer needs to venture outside the brand palette.
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Circle crab wallpapers
In addition to my usual product design and illustration duties at Circle, I have a fun little side project: creating custom wallpapers for my colleagues' phones. Each illustration features a few of our unofficial mascots, a crew of adorable crustaceans. What started as a monthly project has since become quarterly, as I kept getting more and more ambitious. So much for a "side project!"
Circle Pay promo video
In early 2017, I collaborated with my colleagues on Circle's brand team to create a short video about Circle Pay’s cross-border capabilities. Holly led on copy, Kristine art directed, and I created the visuals using Keynote as a motion graphics editor.
Circle Boston office mural
Circle's Boston team moved into a new office in the summer of 2017. I was excited to produce a mural for our cafe, bringing the spirit of Circle Pay to the central point of our office.
Podcasts & Events, Personal Projects, Brand & Identity
Refresh Boston
From 2014–2017, I helped run Refresh Boston, a free meetup for Greater Boston's design and development community, and the local chapter of the international Refreshing Cities collective. We were proud to feature extraordinary speakers and consistently draw an engaged, inquisitive crowd.
Fresh Tilled Soil identity redesign
In 2015, Fresh Tilled Soil celebrated its tenth anniversary. To set the course for the next ten years, I proposed that we revisit the company’s branding and identity. With most of our energy focused on clients, our own marketing collateral and website updates were squeezed into the margins, and the identity lacked a cohesive visual system. Leadership agreed, and soon Fresh Tilled Soil itself became my sole client.
Titleist website & icon design
For more than 80 years, Titleist has made “the #1 ball in golf.” The storied company came to Fresh Tilled Soil with a website that had grown too cumbersome; it was inflexible, mobile unfriendly, and in need of a visual and UX overhaul. Our team set out to craft a modern, fully responsive site that captured the brand’s timeless classicism. I worked alongside some of Fresh Tilled Soil's most senior creative talent, and contributed to the project's visual design, conceptual development, wireframing, prototyping, icon design, and more.
Papar Pupit Pepol logo
Logan International Airport terminal maps
In partnership with Art of Context and Massport, Fresh Tilled Soil overhauled the terminal maps for Boston Logan International Airport. I was proud to lead the design efforts, using our human-centered design process to create entirely new mapping assets that have since been used by tens of millions of travelers.