Hi, I'm Sean.

Full stack designer with nearly two decades of diverse experience. Working on projects from checkout optimization to 0-to-1 app creation, in fashion and fintech, for startups and design firms.

Agency hustle, start-up grit. A designer's eye and developer's mind.

Currently Staff Designer at Foyer.

  • Cuban Council
  • Huge
  • Foyer
  • AKQA
  • Hawthorne
  • R/GA
  • Publicis Sapient
  • GROW
  • Said Differently
  • Savage Bureau
  • VSA
  • IA Collaborative
  • Greenstone

Foyer

I joined Foyer, the 401(k) for homeownership, as the founding product designer in mid-2023.

As the founding designer I brought the app to life. As a design-engineer I work in code and Figma. As the de facto product owner I prioritized features and drove outcomes. As the sole designer I have owned design end-to-end.

Role
Staff (Founding) Product Designer

Welcome screen

Animation • design • development

Where
Price
Concerns

Onboarding

User flow • performance optimization • design • interaction patterns • component development

Foyer × Zillow on iPhone

Foyer × Zillow

Partnership concepting • design • hero animation • content

Calculator
Calculator
Calculator
Calculator

Tools and calculators

Interaction patterns • design • content • development

Foyer results

  • Founding designer, ran successful 0-to-1 launch
  • 40pt increase in onboarded users, by leading with home goal
  • Achieved 64% attach rate on paid product
  • Helped hundreds of members purchase a home

Ohsee QA

Designing in code increases the risk of introducing visual bugs. I looked for a product for visual regression testing, but nothing that existed did what I needed.

So I made my own.

Working code-first, I built and refined a visual QA tool.

Role
Personal Project (Designed & Developed)

Visual QA testing

Concept • design • development

Page detail

Concept • design • development

Responsive states

Concept • design • development

Ohsee results

  • Has caught dozens of bugs in my own work, before it shipped
  • Works for designers and developers with CLI and app
  • Traacks the visual history of your project
  • Built code-first, to meet my specific needs

Hawthorne

I joined Hawthorne, a D2C men's grooming startup, to work product-side after decade+ of working at agencies and design firms.

With a wealth of e-commerce experience, it was a natural fit that unlocked new ways of working: iterating on live design, managing internal bandwidth, and real time insights into customers/data.

Role
Product Designer

Quiz results prototype

Concept • design • interaction patterns

Quiz result concept sketches

Concept sketches (quiz results)

Exploration • user flows • interaction patterns

Revised quiz results

Quiz results redesign

User feedback • design optimization

Website and CMS design

Website and CMS design

Project leadership • design

E-commerce design

E-commerce design

Site design and optimization

Hawthorne results

  • 0-to-1 launch of a direct-buy channel for customers
  • Increased subscriptions 15% from quiz results redesign
  • Led CMS redesign to update the site faster and cheaper
  • Average session value was the top line metric I owned

App Omni

Consulted with App Omni (via Savage Bureau) across several small projects, to provide product thinking and guidance

Projects included application-wide audits and single-feature deep dives.

Role
Product Design Consultant
Agency
Savage Bureau

Nested filtering pattern

Prototype • interaction pattern exploration

App Omni results

  • External consultant, providing UX and product guidance
  • Simplified complex concepts (e.g., nested filtering logic)

Neiman Marcus

As part of a larger partnership between Said Differently and Neiman Marcus, I was tapped to redesign the checkout flow and store finder.

Role
Product/UX Design Freelance
Agency
Said Differently

Checkout design

Research • user flow • design • interaction patterns

Neiman Marcus store details

Store finder design

Research • design

Neiman Marcus results

  • Checkout launched after beating the existing flow in testing
  • Store finder that celebrates each location's character