Hi, I'm Stella

I'm a product designer who untangles complex systems into simpler workflows.

Currently: Master of HCI & Design at the University of Washington
Previously: Product Design at Affirm

FEATURED PROJECTS

2025

Affirm

A self-service deal platform that cut routine updates from days to under 20 minutes.

Interaction Design | AI Prototyping | B2B

Affirm deal-creation flow on the Deal Fees step, with the paginated step list beside the form

2022 - 2025

SuperWorks

Brand identities, design systems, and hand-coded sites across three years of agency client work.

Brand Identity | Web Design | Visual Design

SuperWorks “we are” brand-identity animation

LAB

Side projects, passion pursuits, and archived work.

InvestiGators logo over a fan of scenario and character cards, tokens, and the packaged box, on light blue

2025

InvestiGators

A social investing card game, from concept to boxed product in one month.

Product Design | Game Design | Masters Project

Hands pinching a smooth 3D head shape as glowing concentric crochet-stitch rings ripple across it, beside a floating panel of the written single-crochet pattern
In progress

2026 - Present

Amigurumi Pattern Studio

A browser-based 3D editor that turns sculpted shapes into crochet patterns, validated stitch by stitch.

Product Design | 3D Tool Design | Systems Design

Pink Daisy Crochet: handmade amigurumi animals around the brand wordmark

2022 - Present

Pink Daisy Crochet

A quarantine crochet hobby grown into a small business of characters, patterns, and an Etsy shop.

Entrepreneurship | Branding

The Social Pattern Library's Delegated Access pattern page on ADL's Center for Technology & Society site

2022

Social Pattern Library

25 UX patterns against online harassment, published publicly and cited in Congress.

Design System | Qualitative Research | Internship Project

ABOUT

Nice to meet you! I'm Stella, a product designer who likes untangling complex systems into clean, purposeful workflows.

I graduate in 2026 and I'm looking for a product design team to call home. Say hi!

Experience

  • Optimizely logo
    OptimizelyMaster's Capstone
    2026
  • University of Washington logo
    University of WashingtonMaster of Human-Computer Interaction + Design
    2025 - 2026
  • Affirm logo
    AffirmProduct Designer
    2024 - 2025
  • SuperWorks Design Agency logo
    SuperWorks Design AgencyUX Designer
    2022 - 2024
  • California College of the Arts logo
    California College of the ArtsBFA in Interaction Design
    2018 - 2022

Notes to Self

A few notes to self about how I want to practice design, each one from a real project. I expect future me to argue with it.

I practice design as a

way of thinking,

not a deliverable.

↳ Social Pattern Library

Design keeps teaching me to

unlearn

what I already know.

↳ Affirm: expert users

Be in the room for the

what,

not just the how.

↳ Optimizely: the open brief

Work I can't

explain

doesn't ship.

↳ Affirm: designing with AI

Hold the

balance

between overthinking and overbuilding.

↳ Amigurumi Pattern Studio

Design is

“whatever it takes.”

↳ Pink Daisy Crochet

Outside of Work, I Like To…

Stella at her Pink Daisy Crochet market stand
design and crochet amigurumi 🧸
Stella mid-swing on a golf course
golf 🏌🏻‍♀️
A mixed-media self-portrait drawing
do arts and crafts 🎨
Stella on skis at the top of a mountain
ski ⛷️