About
As an interaction designer, founder, and urbanist, I specialize in building digital experiences that help people discover and navigate the physical world.
At Urban Manual, I lead the end-to-end design process across web and iOS, focusing on harmonizing editorial curating with generative AI to create an immersive, proactive travel companion. My approach combines rapid prototyping, user-centered design methodologies, and strict interface craft to transform complex spatial data into intuitive, consumer-facing experiences.
I recently studied Urban Studies at The New School, alongside coursework in Typography and Interaction App Design at Parsons. In every project, I bridge interaction design and urban thinking, anticipating real-world user needs and ensuring every product decision reflects how people confidently move through the world.
Work Experience
2020-
UM is founded on the principle that human are the decision maker, while we embrace AI to improve our UX, it should never make curation decision.
Tools: Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex
- Directed the complete user-centered design lifecycle from concept to execution, delivering a visually refined, consumer-facing product that helps users explore cities with confidence.
- Used rapid prototyping and experimentation to design an immersive conversational concierge agent, leveraging Vertex AI and strict LLM tool contracts to route spatial data seamlessly to the user.
- Engineered TasteDNA, a 128-dimensional vector recommendation engine that anticipates user needs and proactively ranks destination features to deliver highly personalized, adaptive discovery.
Urban Manual
www.urbanmanual.co
Education
2026
New York, NY
Design courses at Parsons: Typography, Digital Product UXSenior Thesis: Houston-Canal Low Traffic Neighborhood Study