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More than
moving
pixels.

UI/UX designer, illustrator & animator.

New York / Baltimore / Napoli

Animated hand-drawn self-portrait of Scott Siskind

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From 200-page websites to display ads and social campaigns, the user's experience comes first.

Digital work for brand names big and small

Projects for Microsoft, Under Armour, Special Olympics and the American Lung Association.

Years in fast-paced agencies

Design lead for agencies and clients across the US and EU.

UX from the wireframe up

Every build starts with site maps and rounds of wireframes with UX and dev teams.

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Through Their Words

A portrait series of musicians drawn from their own lyrics and quotes.

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Gig posters & album art

Posters, album art, merch and custom type for local art and music scenes.

Motion, big and small

Full video and animation down to the hover effect on a single button.

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Selected digital work

Case studies

Oceantic Network

Making offshore wind feel within reach

A member site for the leading offshore wind organization: complex technical content made engaging, event sign-ups for the industry, and a mobile build that works out in the field.

Oceantic Network website design
Oceantic
NetworkWebsite design · Desktop & mobile
Sector
Energy
Role
Lead designer
With
Unleashed Technologies
Scope
Wireframes → UI → mobile
Oceantic case study
Defenders of Wildlife

It's On Us

A campaign showing time running out for endangered species, across web, display ads and social, built to raise awareness and drive donations.

Defenders of Wildlife It’s On Us campaign
It's
On UsCampaign · Web, ads, social
Sector
Non profit
With
Interactive Strategies
Channels
Web · display · social
Campaign case study
FUTUROOT

Process mining, made readable

The website for an AI-powered process intelligence platform that maps, monitors and fixes enterprise workflows across SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce, written for operators, analysts and business leaders alike.

Sector
Technology
Type
Product website
Product
Process intelligence · AI
FUTUROOT case study
Tidewater Homes

Custom homes, shown the way they’re built

A website for a Jacksonville custom home builder that takes on a limited number of homes each year, pairing full-bleed architectural photography with quiet, editorial type.

Sector
Real Estate
Type
Website design
Location
Jacksonville, FL
Tidewater case study
AMDA · Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Medicine

Vital information, easy to find

A national medical society site that balances a wealth of clinical content, ads and education for users of every age, without burying what each visitor came for.

AMDA website design
AMDAWebsite design · UX & wireframes
Sector
Healthcare
Role
UI designer
With
Unleashed Technologies
Focus
Accessibility · content density
AMDA case study
Columbia Orchestra

A 50th season, in print

Print collateral for Columbia Orchestra’s 2026–27 season, its 50th: custom illustrated posters, program books, brochures and postcards.

Concert-goers in a theatre hallway walking past Columbia Orchestra posters for Big Band Singers, Gordon Goodwin, Giving the Arrangers Their Due and The Saxophones
Sector
Event
Type
Print collateral
Role
Graphic designer
Season
2026–27 · 50th anniversary
Columbia Orchestra case study
Illustration

Posters, portraits & album art

Motion

Make it move.

Motion is one of my favorite parts of any project. From full video and animation to small hover effects, it's how a story comes to life.

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I'm a UI/UX designer, illustrator and animator with 15 years at fast-paced agencies. Outside work I travel, stretch, make music, draw for myself and keep learning Italian.

All work
Case study · Energy

OceanticNetwork

The Oceantic Network is the premier member-based organization dedicated to growing the offshore wind and other ocean renewable industries and their supply chains. One of the main challenges we faced was creating a site that was engaging as well as informative for the appropriate niche users.

Sector
Energy
Agency
Unleashed Technologies
Scope
Wireframes · UI · Mobile
Oceantic Network website shown on desktop
01

Taking on the challenge

With any sustainable energy technology website, the challenges lay in conveying complex technical information in an engaging and user-friendly manner, while highlighting environmental benefits. An integral part of this site was including the ability for users in the industry to sign up for upcoming events and seminars.

We also needed to make sure that the site was clear and usable for mobile as well, since it needed to be accessed from the field at times. We wanted to create a site that could educate visitors on this sustainable energy while serving as an industry tool for networking and awareness.

Oceantic Network page design
02

Creating the framework

With almost every site I design, it begins with a thoroughly thought out framework. I collaborated with the UX and dev team at Unleashed Technologies as well as the client to create wireframes that would ensure our designs transformed the site map into a user experience that would meet all of the client’s needs for their site visitors.

Oceantic Network wireframes
03

Let’s design

I was given updated branding from the client’s branding agency. I like to begin any design process by doing my initial inspiration searches. I look at what competitors are doing, as well as some inspiration sites of unrelated industries with well designed sites.

In the end, I think I was able to come up with a design that was both accessible and still very visually engaging. Offshore wind is a sustainable technology and could very well be the future of energy. I wanted to design a site to reflect that, in both the freshness of the color ratios as well as the creation of each component.

Oceantic Network design, inner page
Oceantic Network design, events and membership
Oceantic Network mobile designs
All work
Case study · Non profit · “It’s On Us” campaign

Defendersof Wildlife

I worked with Interactive Strategies, where I was tasked with creating a campaign for Defenders of Wildlife illustrating how time was running out for endangered species. The campaign titled “It’s On Us” spoke about the responsibility placed on human shoulders to stop climate change before it’s too late. Some of the main goals were to raise awareness for this serious issue as well as encourage donations.

Sector
Non profit
Agency
Interactive Strategies
Scope
Campaign · Web · Display · Social
It’s On Us campaign header for Defenders of Wildlife
01

The campaign site

It’s On Us campaign page design
02

Page designs

It’s On Us campaign design
It’s On Us campaign design, donation
03

Display ads

It’s On Us display ads
04

Social

It’s On Us social post, orca
It’s On Us social post, polar bears
It’s On Us social post, wolves
All work
Case study · Technology

FUTUROOT

The website for an AI-powered process intelligence platform that maps, monitors and fixes enterprise workflows across SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce, written for operators, analysts and business leaders alike.

Sector
Technology
Type
Product website
01

Taking on the challenge

Process mining has long been the territory of data scientists and big-budget consultants. FUTUROOT set out to change that, with process intelligence that business teams can actually use, and the website had to carry the same promise.

That meant explaining a deeply technical product, from event logs and process variants to SAP S/4HANA conformance, in language that operators, analysts and business leaders could all follow, while still proving to technical buyers that it plugs into SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce.

FUTUROOT homepage: process mining, democratised
02

Creating the framework

I organized the site around how visitors actually look for help: by the initiative they’re facing and by their function. Solutions split into Transformation Initiatives and Functional Initiatives, and an icon grid lets visitors jump straight to their use case, from ERP system comparison and system healthchecks to AI readiness and automation.

Every solution page follows the same rhythm: the problem, how FUTUROOT solves it, a real customer story with its results, and then a clear call to action.

FUTUROOT About page: founding story with video, and the platform shown on a laptop
03

Let’s design

Working from FUTUROOT’s brand of deep indigo, violet and bright cyan, I built a visual language of overlapping circles that echo the logo, real product UI floating in soft cards, and bold stat callouts so the proof points land at a glance.

Every icon across the site is custom. I drew each one in the same two-tone cyan-to-violet style as the logo, so the solutions, from System Healthcheck to AI Readiness, read as one family and are recognizable at a glance.

The About page tells the founding story, from frustration with tools built only for the biggest enterprises to a platform for everyone, while the solution pages lead with outcomes, like €1.5M in annual savings identified for one global pharmaceutical company.

Custom FUTUROOT solution icons from the Transformation Initiatives page
FUTUROOT customer results: stat callouts and €1.5M in annual savings
All work
Case study · Real Estate

TidewaterHomes

A website for a Jacksonville custom home builder that takes on a limited number of homes each year, pairing full-bleed architectural photography with quiet, editorial type.

Sector
Real Estate
Type
Website design
Location
Jacksonville, FL
01

Taking on the challenge

Tidewater Homes builds a limited number of custom homes each year in Jacksonville, Florida, and their clients aren’t shopping for square footage. They’re choosing a team to trust with something deeply personal.

The challenge was a site that felt as considered as the homes themselves: calm, confident and unmistakably high-end, without slipping into the glossy sameness of most builder sites. It also had to do real work, showing the portfolio, explaining the process and making the step to inquire feel natural.

Tidewater Homes homepage hero
02

Creating the framework

I kept the structure deliberately simple. Navigation is pared down to The Work, The Firm, The Book, Experience and The Record, with a single Inquire call to action that always stays in reach.

The homepage moves like a walkthrough of a home: a full-bleed featured estate, the firm’s standard told alongside interior details, a client’s own words, then a closing statement before the footer. Generous white space and a thin vertical rule guide the eye down the page.

Tidewater Homes “The Standard” section
03

Let’s design

The design leans on the photography. Wide architectural shots and close interior details carry the emotion, while letter-spaced uppercase labels and light, editorial type keep everything quiet and refined.

The palette is pulled from the homes themselves: warm whites, soft stone and a deep walnut brown that anchors the testimonial and footer. The page closes on feeling rather than features, with a client quote over a dimmed chandelier and the line “Exceptional homes are not built to impress.”

Tidewater Homes client testimonial
Tidewater Homes statement and footer
All work
Case study · Healthcare

AMDA

The Society For Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is the only national medical society that represents and supports clinical leaders and related professionals who work in nursing homes, long-term care, post-acute care, assisted living, home care, hospice, and other related settings.

Sector
Healthcare
Agency
Unleashed Technologies
Scope
Wireframes · UI · Mobile
AMDA website shown on desktop
01

Taking on the challenge

Designing for long-term medical care presents the challenge of balancing accessibility and a comprehensive layout of important information. A key goal to this site was ensuring vital information that a specific user may be looking for would be easy to access amongst a wealth of other information.

The client had the request to include ads throughout the site without inhibiting the overall user experience. It was also essential to include relevant blog posts and articles to further enhance user engagement and provide ongoing education.

AMDA page design
02

Creating the framework

Wireframes and UX were a big part of this project before any designs could be created. I worked alongside the UX team at Unleashed Technologies as well as the client to ensure the best overall user journey. We went through several rounds of wireframes to make sure we had the perfect foundation to build upon focusing on user experience and ease of access to essential information.

AMDA wireframes
03

Let’s design

After all of the initial preparation, it was easy to lay out a clean, yet visually appealing design for users of varying age groups. When selecting imagery for this site, I tried to select images that would appeal to those in long term care, their families, as well as those working in the industry.

Colors needed to be bold to make for the clear separation of sections. In addition, I needed to be certain that the layout would easily translate to a great mobile experience.

AMDA homepage design
AMDA inner page design
All work
Case study · Event

ColumbiaOrchestra

Print collateral for Columbia Orchestra’s 2026–27 season, its 50th: custom illustrated posters, program books, brochures and postcards.

Sector
Event
Type
Print collateral
Season
2026–27 · 50th
Concert-goers in a theatre hallway walking past Columbia Orchestra posters for Big Band Singers, Gordon Goodwin, Giving the Arrangers Their Due and The Saxophones
01

The 50th season brochure

For the orchestra’s 50th season I designed the full run of print collateral: the season brochure, program books, postcards and a custom illustrated poster for every concert.

The brochure sets the tone for all of it. A bold “50” leads the cover, and the same palette, type and graphic shapes carry through every piece that follows.

Columbia Orchestra 50th season brochure cover
02

Inside the brochure

Inside, each concert series gets its own spread, with dates, venues, guest artists and pricing laid out so subscribers can plan the whole season at a glance.

Columbia Orchestra brochure, welcome letter
Columbia Orchestra brochure, classical series
Columbia Orchestra brochure, classical series
Columbia Orchestra brochure, special events
Columbia Orchestra brochure, jazz series and sponsors
Columbia Orchestra brochure, pricing
03

Concert posters

Every concert has its own custom illustration. The jazz series shares a flat, mid-century look, with instruments and performers reduced to simple bold shapes and a different color for each night.

Big Band Singers concert poster
Gordon Goodwin concert poster
Giving the Arrangers Their Due concert poster
The Saxophones concert poster
04

Out on the street

The rest of the season’s posters follow the same approach, each with an illustration made for its audience: a nutcracker for Holiday Pops, Peter and his wolf for the family concert, and Gershwin at the piano for Rhapsody in Blue.

The illustrations are built to stop people walking past the theatre, while a shared type system, footer and ticket QR code tie every poster back to the orchestra.

Columbia Orchestra posters in display cases outside a theatre as a woman walks her dog past
Holiday Pops concert poster
Peter and the Wolf concert poster
Rhapsody in Blue and the American Songbook concert poster