Product designer combining visual craft, growth execution, and research insight. In parallel with crafting product experiences in startups, I've been doing PhD research on how people use AI. I surveyed 345 people across 46 countries, analyzed the last decade of academic studies on AI UX, and audited leading AI products.  The finding was consistent: users want more control over how AI personalizes their experience, clearer ways to prompt, and better tools to refine outputs. Previously at Pattern Brands, I drove 23% conversion growth through data-driven product design.  My approach is: understand what users need through data, design solutions that build trust, ship them with engineering teams, measure impact, and iterate fast. And this is the approach I bring to any team I work with, contract or full-time.