AI Design Engineer, Builder, AI Product Designer, UX Engineer, Design Technologist
Titles matter less when the boundaries barely exist. I work where they overlap: designing, building, and shipping in one motion.Hi, I’m Sue. I design and build AI products, from figuring out the problem to getting the details right.
I work across product design and front-end development. I like taking an early idea, understanding who it’s for, and making something we can put in people’s hands. That often means moving between user conversations, Figma, and React or TypeScript, working closely with engineers along the way.
Most recently at IBM Research, I helped turn emerging AI research into product experiences, including leading the core UX and UI for Granite Playground through public release. Alongside that work, I build my own tools, from an AI knowledge explorer to a job-search workspace now in beta.
My route here started in landscape architecture, took me through Harvard GSD and urban-data work at MIT, and led into AI. Across those settings, I’ve enjoyed the same thing: making complex systems understandable and useful.
I’d love to join a small team where I can help shape what we build and get hands-on making it happen.
How I work
Prototype in code
The medium is the material. A static mock can't tell you how streaming latency feels or where an agent loses the user's trust. Working software can. So I start there.
Make AI legible
Streaming states, visible sources, honest progress. People trust a model when the interface shows what it's doing, and what it doesn't know.
Ship, measure, iterate
A launched product teaches more in a week than a deck does in a quarter. I'd rather put version one in front of people and fix it than keep polishing version zero.
Beyond the screens
Off the clock I climb 🧗♀️ and play tennis 🎾, both games where you commit to a move and find out immediately whether it was the right one. The rest of my curiosity goes to cooking and travel: new recipes, new cities, new ways of doing familiar things. It keeps the ideas coming from somewhere other than a screen.
