Design Leader and Product Designer


I’m an experienced design leader and product designer, who loves working in across UX, UI and collaborating with code and ML engineering in exciting ways. With 8+ years experience in senior Product Design roles, I’m currently Group Product Design Lead in Content & Discovery department at Canva, where I enjoy figuring out the many ways in which technology and creativity can come together to make something beautiful—and make the world a better place. Feel free to contact me on LinkedIn for a chat.


I LEAD DESIGN AT CANVA ACROSS

Search, Recommendations and Assistant

AI Design Generation

AI Media Generation

Content Marketplace

User-generated and In-house Content

SEO

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2020

Women Leading Tech Awards, Google + B&T

Winner, Design

 

Co-founder of The Inclusivity Experiment


Good Design Awards

Gold, Social Impact Category – Working with Children Checks for Indigenous Applicants with the Office of the Children’s Guardian⁠ and Today Design

 

Good Design Awards

Gold, Service Design Category – service system map and decision-making tool to ensure child and family wellbeing with Key Assets with Today Design

 

2019

Good Design Awards

Winner, Design for Good – Kids off Nauru

 

AGDA Award

Design for Good – Kids off Nauru

 

Mumbrella Commscon Award

Shortlist, Kids off Nauru

 

Keynote Speaker at _southstart, 2019

The Dilemma of Doing Good

 

Guest lecturer at Western Sydney University

March 2017-2019

 

2018

AGDA Award

YLab branding for social good

 

Graphis International Branding Competition Honorable Mention

YLab branding for social good

 

Speaker at Sydney Design Festival

Design for Good

 

Webby Award Honoree

Amnesty International Australia digital platform

 


2017

AGDA Award

United Nations, Impossible Choices/The World You’d Rather

 

AGDA Award

Amnesty International Australia digital platform

 

Gold: Hermes Creative Awards

Telstra Sales Superheroes

 


2015 and earlier

AGDA Award

The Fairness Test

 

Silver: Sydney Graphic Design Awards

The Fairness Test