PRODUCT DESIGNER·SYSTEMS THINKER·MAKER
I'm Tahressa (rhymes with Vanessa). Designer by trade, explorer at heart. Currently exploring technology, designing for health and longevity, and logging miles with my pencil dog.
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WHAT I BELIEVE
SELECTED WORK
Not every project needs twenty screens and a process diagram. These are the stories that best explain how I think, lead and make.
Making an entire vehicle purchase behave like one connected experience.
MARK OF DISTINCTION · 2025
Using AI and quick prototypes to align a team before the product was defined.
Changing how the platform itself worked — not just the screens on top of it.
MARK OF DISTINCTION · 2022
WHAT I'M EXPLORING
The lab is where I learn in public — code experiments, AI workflows, behavioral concepts, HCI research and prototypes that may or may not become sensible products.
THE WORK IS CHANGING
My foundation is design. My practice increasingly moves beyond it. I work across product strategy, systems, research, behavioral design and visual craft — and I'm expanding how I use code, AI and functional prototypes to make ideas tangible earlier.
Not because designers need to become engineers. Because the distance between thinking and making is getting shorter.
Make complicated money decisions feel a little less complicated.
Get the parts to behave like they belong together.
Decide what the machine should do — and when it should hush.
Make the idea behave early enough to learn from it.
Still paying attention to the letterforms. Obviously.
PATENTS
RECOGNITION
EDUCATION
TOOLS
Figma · Claude Code · Gemini · VS Code · GitHub · Revit · Unity · Miro · Jira · AI Prototyping · MCP · Design Systems
