A BIT ABOUT ME
Big messy problems made surprisingly simple.
Most designers love blank canvases. I tend to love the messy, high-density stuff: enterprise platforms, analytics hubs, and specialized workflows that have outgrown their original logic. My job is taking all that backend machinery and making it feel quiet, human, and effortless to use.
When I am not deep in Figma auditing design tokens or mapping edge cases, you will usually find me planning multi-week travel itineraries, hunting down good food, or hanging out with my cats.
Product Design
Design Systems
SaaS
Interaction Design
B2B Enterprise
CURRENTLY
📍
BASED IN
Chicago, IL
⚡
BASED IN
True Crime Case tool
🐱
PETTING
3 Cats (Penny, Daisy & Poppy)
🧶
CRAFTING
Paint by Numbers
CAREER
2022- 8/26
Senior UI Designer
ZS Associates
2021-2022
Senior UI Designer
Epsilon
2019-2021
Senior Art Director
FCB Health
2017-2019
Digital Art Director
Laughlin Constable
2016-2017
Freelance Art Director
Leo Burnett, Havas, Plan B Agency, RTO+P
2015-2016
UI Designer
Onyx LA
2013-2015
Graphic Designer
Cliffside Malibu
2020-2013
Columbia College Chicago
BFA - Advertising Art Direction
Listening
What’s in the headphones
Morbid
88%
Heart Starts Pounding
72%
Sierra Ferrel
65%
Kesha
58%
True Crime Obsessed
44%
PLACES
2026 destinations
Chicago
IL
Home 🖤
Lisbon/Porto
PT
August
Seoul
SK
May
Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka
JP
May
Amsterdam
NL
January
Paris
FR
January
NYC, Michigan, Florida
USA
2026
READING
My favorite books over the past few years
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz
Let's make something cool!
Get in touch
PLAYGROUND & EXPERIMENTS
Non-client explorations
Tinkering with code, emerging tech, and interface patterns.
Intellidex
A dedicated web app built to track and structure missing persons cases, featuring automated entity extraction, visual timeline mapping, and private, on-device IndexedDB storage.
Music Platform
A dark-mode music analytics dashboard turning streaming velocity, listener drop-off, and track metrics into high-contrast data visualizations.
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
A mobile booking flow and donor experience designed to streamline orphan elephant visits and conservation support at the Nairobi Nursery.
Sheila Sczepanik
Senior Product Designer
Specializing in enterprise tools, multi-brand design systems, and complex data-dense workflows that scale effortlessly for engineering teams.
A BIT ABOUT ME
Big messy problems made surprisingly simple.
Most designers love blank canvases. I tend to love the messy, high-density stuff: enterprise platforms, analytics hubs, and specialized workflows that have outgrown their original logic. My job is taking all that backend machinery and making it feel quiet, human, and effortless to use.
When I am not deep in Figma auditing design tokens or mapping edge cases, you will usually find me planning multi-week travel itineraries, hunting down good food, or hanging out with my cats.
Product Design
Design Systems
SaaS
Interaction Design
B2B Enterprise
CURRENTLY
📍
BASED IN
Chicago, IL
⚡
BUILDING
True Crime Case tool
🐱
PETTING
3 Cats (Penny, Daisy & Poppy)
🧶
CRAFTING
Paint by Numbers
CAREER
2022- 8/26
Senior UI Designer
ZS Associates
- Architected and implemented a semantic design token pipeline across web, iOS, and Android platforms, unifying cross-platform UI kits and establishing direct parity between Figma libraries and production code.
- Reduced developer handoff friction by 40% to 60% across 10 global product squads (100+ engineers, product managers, and designers) by standardizing component variants, variable collections, and single-source documentation.
- Overhauled core UI kit architecture, rebuilding interactive components via Figma Make, resolving Stepper edge cases, standardizing iconography alignment, and aligning design benchmarks with Storybook.
- Directed end-to-end accessibility governance across 8 to 10 enterprise healthcare and analytics products, auditing platforms to eliminate compliance debt and achieve 100% WCAG AA compliance.
- Piloted AI-assisted design and rapid prototyping workflows using Cursor and Claude Code, reducing concept validation cycles from weeks to days (a 30% speedup in delivery).
- Scoped and validated foundational interaction patterns for dense data manipulation, including the engineering co-design of a multi-state List Builder component for enterprise workflows.
- Authored structured Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) intake frameworks for GitHub and automation agents, standardizing how new component requests were scoped, reviewed, and contributed by distributed pods.
- Educated product managers, engineers, and consultants by designing and leading nationwide accessibility presentations and Lunch & Learn sessions on accessible UX patterns.
2021-2022
Senior UI Designer
Epsilon
- Transformed complex transactional data streams and multi-tiered approval chains into intuitive, responsive SaaS interfaces for both business administrators and end users.
- Established complete production UI states (active, hover, loading, error, empty), eliminating ambiguity and preserving visual fidelity across responsive viewports.
- Created the "Baseline + 2" delivery framework, pairing direct 1:1 engineering requirement baselines with two forward-looking UX alternatives to evaluate technical feasibility and reduce scope debates.
- Built modular component libraries that sped up sprint cycles across product squads while enforcing interface consistency and brand standards.
- Partnered directly with engineering in active development environments to resolve edge-case layout constraints and performance tradeoffs without sacrificing visual quality.
2019-2021
Senior Art Director
FCB Health
- Designed responsive web platforms and patient-facing companion tools, transforming complex clinical data into clear, accessible, consumer-grade digital narratives.
- Partnered with brand copywriters, medical strategists, and creative leads to produce cohesive multichannel experiences across web, native mobile viewports, and integrated campaigns.
- Created custom vector illustration systems and responsive UI assets optimized for mobile performance, clarifying multi-step educational pathways for end users.
- Guided all user-facing digital creative through rigorous regulatory reviews, maintaining 100% legal compliance while preserving consumer-friendly visual polish and intuitive navigation.
2017-2019
Digital Art Director
Laughlin Constable
- Directed digital activations, responsive web concepts, and creative strategy across major consumer and enterprise accounts, including healthcare networks and consumer brands.
- Architected reusable design systems and modular interface components that balanced visual craft with cross-platform engineering constraints.
- Collaborated with marketing teams, copywriters, and frontend engineers from initial pitch concepting through production launch, driving new business wins and cohesive brand rollouts.
2016-2017
Freelance Art Director
Leo Burnett, Havas, Plan B Agency, RTO+P
2015-2016
UI Designer
Onyx LA
2013-2015
Graphic Designer
Cliffside Malibu
2020-2013
Columbia College Chicago
BFA - Advertising Art Direction
Listening
What’s in the headphones
Morbid
88%
Heart Starts Pounding
72%
Sierra Ferrel
65%
Kesha
58%
True Crime Obsessed
44%
PLACES
2026 destinations
Chicago
IL
Home 🖤
Lisbon/Porto
PT
August
Seoul
SK
May
Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka
JP
May
Amsterdam
NL
January
Paris
FR
January
NYC, Michigan, Florida
USA
2026
READING
My favorite books over the past few years
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz
Let's make something cool!
Get in touch
PLAYGROUND & EXPERIMENTS
Non-client explorations
Tinkering with code, emerging tech, and interface patterns.
Intellidex
A dedicated web app built to track and structure missing persons cases, featuring automated entity extraction, visual timeline mapping, and private, on-device IndexedDB storage.
Music Platform
A dark-mode music analytics dashboard turning streaming velocity, listener drop-off, and track metrics into high-contrast data visualizations.
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
A mobile booking flow and donor experience designed to streamline orphan elephant visits and conservation support at the Nairobi Nursery.
Sheila Sczepanik
Senior Product Designer
Specializing in enterprise tools, multi-brand design systems, and complex data-dense workflows that scale effortlessly for engineering teams.
A BIT ABOUT ME
Big messy problems made surprisingly simple.
Most designers love blank canvases. I tend to love the messy, high-density stuff: enterprise platforms, analytics hubs, and specialized workflows that have outgrown their original logic. My job is taking all that backend machinery and making it feel quiet, human, and effortless to use.
When I am not deep in Figma auditing design tokens or mapping edge cases, you will usually find me planning multi-week travel itineraries, hunting down good food, or hanging out with my cats.
Product Design
Design Systems
SaaS
Interaction Design
B2B Enterprise
CURRENTLY
📍
BASED IN
Chicago, IL
⚡
BUILDING
True Crime Case tool
🐱
PETTING
3 Cats (Penny, Daisy & Poppy)
🧶
CRAFTING
Paint by Numbers
CAREER
2022- 8/26
Senior UI Designer
ZS Associates
- Architected and implemented a semantic design token pipeline across web, iOS, and Android platforms, unifying cross-platform UI kits and establishing direct parity between Figma libraries and production code.
- Reduced developer handoff friction by 40% to 60% across 10 global product squads (100+ engineers, product managers, and designers) by standardizing component variants, variable collections, and single-source documentation.
- Overhauled core UI kit architecture, rebuilding interactive components via Figma Make, resolving Stepper edge cases, standardizing iconography alignment, and aligning design benchmarks with Storybook.
- Directed end-to-end accessibility governance across 8 to 10 enterprise healthcare and analytics products, auditing platforms to eliminate compliance debt and achieve 100% WCAG AA compliance.
- Piloted AI-assisted design and rapid prototyping workflows using Cursor and Claude Code, reducing concept validation cycles from weeks to days (a 30% speedup in delivery).
- Scoped and validated foundational interaction patterns for dense data manipulation, including the engineering co-design of a multi-state List Builder component for enterprise workflows.
- Authored structured Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) intake frameworks for GitHub and automation agents, standardizing how new component requests were scoped, reviewed, and contributed by distributed pods.
- Educated product managers, engineers, and consultants by designing and leading nationwide accessibility presentations and Lunch & Learn sessions on accessible UX patterns.
2021-2022
Senior UI Designer
Epsilon
- Transformed complex transactional data streams and multi-tiered approval chains into intuitive, responsive SaaS interfaces for both business administrators and end users.
- Established complete production UI states (active, hover, loading, error, empty), eliminating ambiguity and preserving visual fidelity across responsive viewports.
- Created the "Baseline + 2" delivery framework, pairing direct 1:1 engineering requirement baselines with two forward-looking UX alternatives to evaluate technical feasibility and reduce scope debates.
- Built modular component libraries that sped up sprint cycles across product squads while enforcing interface consistency and brand standards.
- Partnered directly with engineering in active development environments to resolve edge-case layout constraints and performance tradeoffs without sacrificing visual quality.
2019-2021
Senior Art Director
FCB Health
- Designed responsive web platforms and patient-facing companion tools, transforming complex clinical data into clear, accessible, consumer-grade digital narratives.
- Partnered with brand copywriters, medical strategists, and creative leads to produce cohesive multichannel experiences across web, native mobile viewports, and integrated campaigns.
- Created custom vector illustration systems and responsive UI assets optimized for mobile performance, clarifying multi-step educational pathways for end users.
- Guided all user-facing digital creative through rigorous regulatory reviews, maintaining 100% legal compliance while preserving consumer-friendly visual polish and intuitive navigation.
2017-2019
Digital Art Director
Laughlin Constable
- Directed digital activations, responsive web concepts, and creative strategy across major consumer and enterprise accounts, including healthcare networks and consumer brands.
- Architected reusable design systems and modular interface components that balanced visual craft with cross-platform engineering constraints.
- Collaborated with marketing teams, copywriters, and frontend engineers from initial pitch concepting through production launch, driving new business wins and cohesive brand rollouts.
2016-2017
Freelance Art Director
Leo Burnett, Havas, Plan B Agency, RTO+P
2015-2016
UI Designer
Onyx LA
2013-2015
Graphic Designer
Cliffside Malibu
2020-2013
Columbia College Chicago
BFA - Advertising Art Direction
Listening
What’s in the headphones
Morbid
88%
Heart Starts Pounding
72%
Sierra Ferrel
65%
Kesha
58%
True Crime Obsessed
44%
PLACES
2026 destinations
Chicago
IL
Home 🖤
Lisbon/Porto
PT
August
Seoul
SK
May
Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka
JP
May
Amsterdam
NL
January
Paris
FR
January
NYC, Michigan, Florida
USA
2026
READING
My favorite books over the past few years
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz
Let's make something cool!
Get in touch
PLAYGROUND & EXPERIMENTS
Non-client explorations
Tinkering with code, emerging tech, and interface patterns.
Intellidex
A dedicated web app built to track and structure missing persons cases, featuring automated entity extraction, visual timeline mapping, and private, on-device IndexedDB storage.
Music Platform
A dark-mode music analytics dashboard turning streaming velocity, listener drop-off, and track metrics into high-contrast data visualizations.
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
A mobile booking flow and donor experience designed to streamline orphan elephant visits and conservation support at the Nairobi Nursery.