2025
Affirm
A self-service deal platform that cut routine updates from days to under 20 minutes.
Interaction Design | AI Prototyping | B2B
Hi, I'm Stella
I like working on things that are difficult to design: enterprise platforms, AI workflows, and systems with a lot of moving parts.
Currently: Master of HCI & Design at the University of Washington.
Previously: Product Design at Affirm
FEATURED PROJECTS
In progress
2026 - Present
Optimizely: Opal AI
Designing how AI agents embed into marketer workflows.
AI Workflows | Masters Capstone
2022 - 2025
SuperWorks
Brand identities, design systems, and hand-coded sites across three years of agency client work.
Brand Identity | Web Design | Visual Design
LAB
Side projects, passion pursuits, and archived work.
2025
InvestiGators
A social investing card game, from concept to boxed product in one month.
Product Design | Game Design | Masters Project
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
2022 - Present
Pink Daisy Crochet
A quarantine crochet hobby grown into a small business of characters, patterns, and an Etsy shop.
Entrepreneurship | Branding
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.
Right now I'm finishing my master's in HCI at the University of Washington, and working with Optimizely on how AI agents should show up in enterprise tools. I graduate in 2026 and I'm looking for a product design team to call home. Say hi!
Experience
- 2026
OptimizelyMaster's Capstone - 2025 - 2026
University of WashingtonMaster of Human-Computer Interaction + Design - 2024 - 2025
AffirmProduct Designer - 2022 - 2024
SuperWorks Design AgencyUX Designer - 2018 - 2022
California College of the ArtsBFA in Interaction Design
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.
Outside of Work, I Like To…
