Design Systems &
UX Platform Leader
I lead teams, clarify complex product problems, and carry decisions into delivery. Through Aquex, I combine client work with the AI tools I build and use every day.
Selected work
Recent client work and the tools behind my practice: product strategy, information architecture, design systems, and AI-assisted delivery.
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Parts Town: Navigation and Information Architecture
A navigation and information architecture engagement connecting storefront evidence, catalog relationships, and customer context to a practical recommendation for product discovery.
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The Academy: Connecting Brand, Content, and Delivery
Led strategy, content direction, and delivery coordination for The Academy's rebrand and website, connecting a family-centered experience to the team's everyday work with Reasonbook, Stage1, and TraceLab.
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OODS Foundry: One Object, Every Screen
OODS Foundry is an object-oriented design system that an AI assistant drives over MCP. You name an object and a context, and it composes the screen from governed components and design tokens, generates React or Vue, and certifies the charts it draws. It's free under Apache 2.0 and in beta.
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Reasonbook: Decisions That Survive the Session
Reasonbook keeps a project's decisions, reasons, lessons, and open work in a SQLite file in the repository, and brings that record into each new agent session. It started as CMOS, the system I built to run my own projects. It's now open source, with plugins for Claude Code and Codex.
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Stage1: Measuring What Actually Shipped
Stage1 opens a live site in a real browser and records what shipped: styles, tokens, structure, accessibility results, and Lighthouse results. It compares that with a Figma file, CSS, or token JSON, and links each finding to its evidence. It runs on your machine as a command-line tool, a local viewer, and an MCP server, and it's free on npm.
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TraceLab: Research You Can Check
TraceLab is an invite-only research workspace. Each project holds its documents, a ledger of sourced evidence, and cited reports. The Librarian answers with citations and drafts research missions, and DeepSearch, a separate worker, runs them on the web. In September 2026 I redesigned it from the ground up on OODS Foundry.
Let's work together
Open to senior UX and design systems leadership roles, and consulting through Aquex.ai on product strategy, design systems, and AI-assisted workflows.