I'm DJ, I design products that respect people's time and reward their curiosity.
3+ years in, I've been the first design hire, the systems person, and the one sweating a single easing curve at 1am.
I work across research, interface, and motion because users experience all three as one thing.
Off the clock: photography, books, economics, walking and experimenting with Tech & AI that made me feel something.
Off the clock
The destination never mattered.
Most of who I am was found on a bike. Follow the route four stops, no hurry. Enjoy the ride now !
km 01 · The Saddle
Five kilometres or five hundred.
I ride in and out of the city, and sometimes clean out of it a bakery run or a week on the highway. Same reason either way: the ride is the point. Everything else on this route, I found from the saddle.
km 02 · The Viewfinder
Stop. Look. Shoot.
The camera comes along more often than not. Shooting taught me to notice light; editing taught me what to leave out. Design uses the exact same muscles mine just get trained on weekends.
km 03 · The Shelf
Fuel for the road.
The shelf leans practical: Steal Like an Artist, Atomic Design, Deep Work, The Psychology of Money. Read slowly, stolen from often.
▸ currently rewatching: Better Call Saul
km 04 · The Notebook
Where the ride gets written down.
Poems, short stories, scripts, letters to my own journal some of it good, all of it honest. And when junior designers ask, I pass the map along: design, money, careers, whatever the ride taught me.
▸ also: long walks. no destination, obviously
— end of route. or not. —
same time next weekend
The road so far
2023 — Now
Product Designer
Startup - Hash Agile Technologies
0→1 products, design systems and the occasional rescue mission.