Hi, I’m Matt.
I’m a New York-based Product Designer + Design Technologist spearheading and building AI tools for Rakuten’s design system. I’ve also built systems and features for Angi, 17seconds, Understood, and Lovesac, among others.
My best work (and the most fun I have as a designer) comes from empowering others to do their best work, building products for equity + inclusion, and finding ways to revive the Wild West joy of Web 1.0 in today’s internet.
Feel free to reach out about talks, conferences, or just to say hi!
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🧩 Flexible Components (Angi, 2023-2024)
⚛️ Component Library Refresh (Understood, 2021)
🌘 Tokens, Palettes, and Dark Mode (Understood, 2020-2021)
📈 Brand Refresh + Merge (17seconds, 2022)
More work: Design Systems | Product Design
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↘︎ Design Systems Lead @ Rakuten (2025- )
↘︎ Sr. Product Designer, Design Systems @ Angi (2022-2025)
↘︎ Sr. UX Designer, Design Systems @ 17seconds (2021-2022)
↘︎ Product Designer @ Understood (2019-2021)
↘︎ UX Architect @ Lovesac (2018-2019)
↘︎ UX/UI Designer @ RepOne Strength (2017-2018)
↘︎ Product Designer @ Resistance School (2017-2018)
↘︎ UX Design Consultant @ High Frequency Economics (2016-2017)
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↘︎ Ep. 95: Empathy-First Approach to Evolving Design Systems (🎙️ The Design Systems Podcast, 2024)
↘︎ Invisible Systems: What Makes Design Systems Run (🎥 UXHouse, 2021)
↘︎ Designing for User Environments (📝 UX Collective, 2019)
↘︎ The Mindset That Helps Us Design for Everyone (📝 Understood, 2020)
↘︎ The Accessibility That’s Often Overlooked (📝 Understood, 2020)