PRODUCT • SERVICE • UX/UI DESIGN
Designing human-centered solutions for complex enterprise environments
I lead design initiatives that turn complex business challenges into intuitive, impactful digital experiences by aligning stakeholders, streamlining processes, and elevating user experiences at scale.
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The Squiggle by Damian Newman
SELECTED WORK
Case Studies
Enterprise-scale projects where strategic design drove measurable business outcomes.
PRODUCT DESIGN • SERVICE DESIGN
AI-Powered Verification Workflow
How I streamlined a complex multi-stakeholder approval process by integrating AI recommendations into a human-centered verification system.
60%
Faster Delivery
85%
Increase in user satisfaction
DATA VISUALIZATION • DESIGN SYSTEM • UX/UI DESIGN
Data Visualizations & Dashboards
As the primary visualizations designer in the Strategic Portfolio Management office, I worked with business, strategy, process, technical, and communications teams to design and develop data visualizations to be used in products, presentations, and communications materials.
STRATEGY • SERVICE DESIGN • UX/UI DESIGN
Total Experience
I spearheaded an effort at the State Department to design and implement a Total Experience Platform aimed at creating a unified and holistic employee and customer experience across a expansive array of platforms and services.
MORE WORK
Additional Projects
A selection of other professional and academic projects spanning product design, branding, and digital experiences.
MOBILE APP
Audiobook App Concept
UX exploration for an audiobook listening experience focused on discovery and retention.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Book Graphics & Layout
Graphics & layout for “Lead From The Future, published by Harvard Business Press,
ENTERPRISE APP
Mindsharing App Concept
Brainstorming & decision-making tool to help facilitate vision sessions.
ARCHITECTURE • REAL ESTATE
The Golden Shovel
Real estate competition to present best use case and financing option for a proposed development.
ARCHITECTURE • PRODUCT DESIGN
T-Series
An independent skunworks project undertaken during my summer internship with Project Frog.
ARCHITECTURE • THEORY
Strange Works | Masters Thesis
Decommissioned military bases and the ecological, cultural, and planning opportunities they present.
PHOTOGRAPHY • ART
Personal
PHOTOGRAPHY
Creative work that sharpens how I see composition, light, and visual storytelling.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ellipsis Reprise
Photography of art installation performance, which combines electronic soundscape with 3D animation and site-specific architectural installation.
232 Wurster
Photography of Wurster Hall renovation, which reveals the true juxtaposition of the glorious past and the material fabrication technology of the present.
Mare Island
Mare Island is a hybrid landscape, between industry and nature. There is a blurring of borders, a loss of order, a melancholic feeling that hangs heavy over the ground.
ART
ART
Strange Works Drawings
Inspired by satellite views gathered through Google Earth, this series translates distant, industrial landscapes into pen, ink, and watercolor.
PHOTOGRAPHY
ART
Strange Works
Systems of utility and the scars they leave behind. Hybrid landscapes, stuck between industry and nature, past and future.
Terrain Vagues
Mixed media paintings exploring landscapes as surfaces of memory. Built through layers and abrasion the work mirrors landscapes shaped by use, neglect, and time.
ABOUT
I thrive where complexity meets human need
I am a creative, curious, and collaborative Product and Service Designer with experience leading design initiatives for complex, enterprise-level digital solutions. I combine strong user research expertise, strategic thinking, and refined visual design to deliver impactful products in complex environments.
I've spent my careers figuring out how to make complicated things feel simple. At the State Department, that means turning a tangle of 25+ platforms and 60+ applications into tools that people around the world actually want to use. Before that, I helped corporate and government clients rethink how their workspaces and technology work together.
The thread through all of it: I sit between the people building the technology and the people using it, and I make sure both sides are heard. I lead research, shape product strategy, and design interfaces, but the work I'm proudest of is usually the alignment I create between teams that weren't talking to each other before.
Outside of work, I enjoy photography and personal art projects, a creative practice that keeps me looking closely at composition, light, and how things are arranged in space.