Product Designer · Design Engineer · Design Systems

I design the screens and the system underneath them.

I started as a developer, so I think in components before I think in pixels. Fourteen years in healthcare, education, and enterprise software, and three design systems built from zero, because I'm a bit of a design systems nerd.

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01 · Selected work

Product design · Healthcare

Cutting clinical task time 50% by redesigning an EMR around a 15-minute visit

50%+faster clinical tasks, in timed testing

Clinic research, a design system built from zero, and a Refresh button that taught us what staff actually needed.

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Zoomcare lab results screen with an order status timeline

Zero to one · EdTech

Concept to live school pilots in seven months, as a team of one (plus AI)

7 mofrom empty repo to two schools running live pilots

One K-12 platform for six audiences, with COPPA consent built into the core journeys.

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DoCurious challenge library, teacher view

Consumer web · Manufacturing

300% more customer inquiries from a global brand’s consumer-facing redesign

300%more customer inquiries within three months

A contractor website rebuilt for homeowners, plus the custom CMS that runs it in every country.

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JELD-WEN consumer website redesign

02 · Also on the record

Extensis

30% conversion lift from data-driven website UX improvements

Cirium

First design system for an aerospace data company

M.J. Murdock Trust

Grant-application journey redesign for a charitable trust

U of O Hall of Achievement

Multi-user interactive display on a 3×3 wall of touchscreens

03 · What it's like to work with me

“What impresses me most about Alissa is how fearless she is about learning something new. I’ve watched her go from software engineer, to UX designer, to understanding and implementing complex design systems across software, and now to building with AI herself. … That kind of curiosity and adaptability is hard to teach.”
Kristin Shapiro, Executive Director, IT Project & Product Management — worked with Alissa at two companies
“Alissa has an uncanny ability to understand what a problem actually needs and translate that understanding into design. … Give her something complicated, ambiguous or difficult to articulate and she will find the thread in it. She’s remarkable at what she does.”
Echo Cain, Healthcare Solutions Expert — worked with Alissa at Zoomcare
“Her skills go beyond visual aesthetic and design — she has a knack for UI composition and development. Any time I needed help with CSS she knew exactly what was needed, or helped the team figure it out.”
Mauricio Zuniga, Software Systems Engineer — worked with Alissa at CMD
“Alissa is a joy to work with … no deadline, no content request, nothing fazes her. She is brilliant at what she does.”
Colby Reade, Director of Communications — M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
“She is a top-notch UX designer, excellent at what she does. She is a no-bullshit type of person, which I absolutely respect. She would be an asset to any team she is a part of.”
Kerry Gelhar — worked with Alissa at Extensis and CMD