I’ve been a product designer for nearly 20 years, always with a focus on ‘play’. Play is one of my core values as a designer and as a leader: it builds connection and is the foundation of creativity. Playful design transforms functional products into ones that drive desire. Teams that play together invent more, fear less, and perform higher. Regardless of whether it’s a premium consumer experience or the creator/seller tools that run it, my responsibility is to make it as enjoyable as possible both to use the product and to work on the team building it.

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” – Winston Churchill

“If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” – RuPaul Charles