Picture this: a youth pastor reaches out with a real concern - "We want to make sure every adult who volunteers with our teens knows how to keep them safe."

No fluff. No vague goals. Just a clear, urgent need: empower volunteers with tools to build safer, more accountable relationships with minors.

The ask? Create a digital experience that makes training accessible, engaging, and ongoing.

This project hit close to home. As my former employee of 7 years, I was well aware of the challenges of creating an ordering system that would reduce friction for customers. With all the variables of custom apparel: style, brand, color, size, there is a lot of data to parse through.

In doing so, I had to remove my personal biases given my history with the business, and go straight to customers of Oh Shirt Yeah, as well as of other apparel companies to gain insights.

The fact of the matter is, shirts can be a messy business. My goal was to help clean that up.

As an avid music fan, and long time Spotify user, I wanted to try my hand at designing within their system. This led me to exploring what features might be missing from Spotify.

That's a daunting task, as an app with that many users and that much history, it's hard to identify ways to improve it.

Upon speaking with fellow Spotify users and users of other apps, I found an elegant idea to keep music exploration in the app with a simple Audio Search feature.