Product designer
End to end Design
Design Strategy
Prototyping
2 product leads
5 engineers
Aug. 2025
In late 2021, a former design lead reached out to me regarding the ClimaSens project. Knowing my passion for environmental sustainability and renewable energy, they invited me to lead the design for a platform that could fundamentally shift how cities prepare for climate change. I joined in early 2022 and took ownership of the entire design and re-design of the product's core features.
Working with stakeholders like the City of Stockholm, the City of Melbourne, and Red Cross Australia, I transformed ClimaSens into a high-utility SaaS platform. My work centered on helping these organizations benchmark climate resilience by monitoring risks and past impacts to better predict future environmental performance.
Total Feature Included
8
Adopted by Clients of
20
Generate Yearly Revenue
5 Million+
The success of our work at ClimaSens led to an interesting project: securing a $5 million grant from Google.org to build ClimateIQ. This tool was envisioned as a free, open-access platform to democratize climate risk intelligence for the world’s most under-resourced communities.
In order to deliver high-resolution, localized insights into rainfall-induced flooding and critical heat indices. I translated complex environmental data into an intuitive, agentic experience. This successfully turned raw climate intelligence into a practical, life-saving tool for under-resourced communities.
To drive the project's strategic success, I developed a high-efficiency multi-hazard layout that simplified simultaneous risk visualization, allowing our team to hit the aggressive 2024 Climate Week deadline. I took a hands-on approach to the technical execution by using Storybook to streamline the design system for our engineers, guaranteeing a responsive and pixel-perfect build. This work, paired with a comprehensive redesign of the platform and landing page, was a key factor in attracting and onboarding the high-profile global partners that now anchor the platform.
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