Designing places people want to belong
I'm a product designer specialising in chat, community, and social platforms. I focus on the systems that matter: role hierarchies, access flows, and moderation tools that make online spaces feel safe and alive—not just channels that look polished.
Echo — Community Chat
Echo is a community chat platform built around clarity of purpose and earned trust. The system organizes three channel types: Information channels (#rules, #announcements) for broadcast; Community channels (#general, #creations, #support) for conversation; and a Voice channel (Lounge) for real-time presence.
Currently live with 1,284 members and a 98.6% community health score. Every design decision—from role assignment flows to the audit trail visibility for moderators—serves a single principle: make trust transparent and roles obvious.
How I think about community products
Good community design is never about making things look nice. It's about role clarity—knowing exactly what a Community Lead, Creator, Moderator, or Member can and cannot do. It's about earned access through friend codes and admin codes that signal trust. It's about visible trust tooling: audit trails that moderators can read, slow mode that prevents pile-ons, permission hierarchies that don't feel hidden.
This is the reasoning behind every project I work on. Every interface, every permission gate, every notification exists to answer one question: does this help this person understand their place in this community?
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If you're building a chat, community, or social product and you care about systems thinking as much as design craft, let's talk.
I work with studios and founders on new community platform design, moderation system architecture, and role-based access flows. New engagements are considered for chat, community, and social products at seed and growth stage.