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I’m Leslie, an Austin-based product designer. The focus of my work includes building graceful and ethical solutions for sociological and cultural problems. I’m currently a staff product designer @PayPal building tools for small and medium businesses. I also moonlight as a lecturer at Texas State University teaching the next generation of designers.


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My Design Principles

Stay Skeptical

Understand. Ask why. Critique. Repeat


Think systems not symptoms

Technology hides complexity. Double click into the matrices sitting just below that minimalist sheen.


Imagine Other(wise)

Create a world founded upon the perspectives of those who have been systemically othered or forgotten.


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What I’m (Always) Reading

Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin

Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

Design Thinking and the Spirit of Capitalism: Sociological Refletions on Innovation Culture by Tim Seitz



Speaking

Design is Not Neutral Podcast 2023

University of Texas at Austin School of Art & Design 2022

SXSW EDU 2022

AIGA Grow Conference 2020


Writing


coming soon