Hello, I’m Christine
I'm a product and design leader with 20 years of experience designing products, shaping platform strategy, and building design organizations. I blend systems thinking with deep knowledge of craft.
I'm currently working toward a graduate degree in data analytics and visualization because I believe data and data art are some of the most powerful tools we have for turning complex information into human understanding and action.
20+ years in product + design // Scaled current design organization from 6 to 85 // Health tech, enterprise, + cybersecurity
MFA, Fashion - Product Development + Merchandising // Master’s, Data Analytics + Visualization (in progress)
Philosophy
My approach to design leadership isn't a methodology. It's a belief system, and it shapes how I build teams, design solutions, scale structures, and make decisions.
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People
People are the foundation everything else is built on. I've spent years developing a framework I call the Growth Honeycomb™ that creates coherence across the entire team lifecycle, from how you hire to how people grow. Get the people right, and everything else follows.
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Process
Process is how design earns its seat. I build the operational foundations — the principles, playbooks, UX ops structures, and design intelligence systems that make design visible and scalable.
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Product
I think in ecosystems, not features. I connect disparate products into scalable platforms that other teams can build on and create coherent user experiences. Not just designing the car, but the roads, the rules, and the map.
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Parachute
I step into high-stakes product and organizational moments to stabilize teams, reset direction, and re-establish clarity in situations when there's little room for error.
Field notes
My journey has included musical theatre, editorial design and journalism, fashion, retail, visual merchandising, and ecommerce, advertising, enterprise software, cybersecurity, and most recently data art and visualization.
On the surface, these may look like separate paths, but they are not.
Every domain I’ve worked in has been a different answer to the same questions: how do you take something invisible or complicated, whether a feeling, a system, a workflow, a dataset, or organizational infrastructure, and give it a form that other people can understand, navigate, and act on. That drive connects my MFA in fashion to design systems and platform experiences to organizational leadership to data art and jewelry design.