Hi, I'm Lexi, a product designer based in the Bay Area.

For the last decade, I've worked on products where the stakes are high, the domains are dense, and the people using them need things to just work. I believe the burden of complexity belongs with the designer, not the user. That means building deep technical context, mapping every scenario the system might produce, and designing for the cases the happy path doesn't cover.

Solving gnarly problems engages my mind, but the work I care about most is the people around it. I mentor designers and care deeply about the teams I'm part of. Some of my favorite career moments have nothing to do with shipping. They're the times where a teammate felt heard, a junior designer had a breakthrough, or a team came together around a hard problem.

My early career was in film and documentary, where I learned to find the right frame for a complicated story. From there I moved into customer success at Hearsay Systems and Lantern, spending my days listening to the people actually using the product. At Lantern, I started filling in user research gaps, and that's when something clicked: I didn't just want to identify the problems users were having, I wanted to solve them. That pull from research into design shaped how I work today. I don't start with interfaces, I start by understanding what someone is trying to do and where the system around them breaks down.

Outside of work, I read constantly, cook ambitiously, and dance whenever the situation even slightly calls for it.