Available for freelance — Summer '26

Designs that feelfresh-picked.

I'm Pip — a UI/UX designer turning tangled product problems into interfaces so friendly, even a toddler could tap them. (Some of my users are toddlers. They're brutal critics.)

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FRESH PICKED DESIGN • EST. 2019 •
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Hi, I'm Pip.

I spent six years at product studios watching beautiful apps confuse the people they were built for. So I started designing the way kids learn: one big idea per screen, generous spacing, and zero fine print.

Now I help startups ship products that are obvious in the best way — researched deeply, tested ruthlessly, and finished with a little juice.

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Design philosophy

If a three-year-old can't find the button, neither can your busiest customer.

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Selected work

Crate & Pail

Grocery delivery app redesign — checkout time cut from 4 minutes to 70 seconds.

Mobile appUX research2026

Juicebox

A music player for kids — big targets, no dark patterns, parental peace of mind.

Product designAccessibility2025

Marmalade DS

A 140-component design system that let three product teams ship twice as fast.

Design systemDocumentation2025

Snackpack

Meal-planning SaaS onboarding — activation up 41% in the first quarter post-launch.

Web appGrowth design2024
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How the sausage fruit salad gets made

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Dig in

Stakeholder interviews, analytics spelunking, and watching real users struggle. No assumptions survive week one.

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Sketch loud

Dozens of ugly options before one pretty answer. Crayon-level fidelity keeps everyone honest about ideas, not pixels.

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Test small

Five users, every week, no exceptions. If the prototype confuses anyone, it goes back in the basket.

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Ship & squeeze

Launch, measure, iterate. The juiciest improvements always come after version one meets the real world.

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Kind words

"Pip ran the most rigorous research process we've ever had — then turned it into the friendliest product in our category. Rare combo."

Maya OrtizVP Product, Crate & Pail

"Our design system went from a Figma junk drawer to the thing every engineer praises in retros. Pip just gets systems."

Devon ClarkeEngineering Lead, Marmalade

"Activation jumped 41% and support tickets dropped by a third. The board asked who we hired. We said: the fruit person."

Sana OkaforCEO, Snackpack

Got a juicy problem? Let's squeeze it.

Currently booking projects for late summer 2026. Tell me what you're building and I'll bring the snacks.

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