I design the structure behind data-rich enterprise products.
I'm a UX architect and designer in Minneapolis. For twenty years I've taken complex, multi-product experiences from early ideation in Figma through flows, prototypes, and the design systems that hold them together. I do my best work on a team, where everyone gets a say in the design.
About
I came up through information architecture and front-end engineering, so I read systems the way engineers do and draw them so product and research can actually use them. Day to day that's hands-on work: ideation, wireframes, flows, and high-fidelity Figma prototypes for complex products, with the sitemaps, taxonomies, and component models underneath that decide whether the whole thing feels coherent or just busy.
Twenty years in, I don't use seniority to take over a room. The best UX comes out of a team where everyone has a voice, the engineer and the product manager included, so I lead by framing the problem clearly, sharing work early, and iterating on honest feedback. People tend to say I'm easy to work with, and I treat that as part of the craft rather than a nicety.
Lately that's meant the work I like most: account setup and enrollment that spans multiple products, design-system governance for dense policy and account data, and AI interaction patterns on a B2B analytics platform. I run my own practice, Krondek, and the dense, high-stakes work is what I take on most.
From front-end engineering to UX architecture and design for data-rich enterprise platforms.
Design systems built or governed across complex enterprise platforms.
Time to a useful answer in an AI tool I designed, more than halved in testing.
Selected work
A wall that keeps track of time
I lose track of time, and anything I can't see stops existing. So I designed an always-on wall display that keeps my day in view, interrupts me five minutes before things start, and lets me finish a task with one tap. It went from idea to a tablet on the wall in three days, built with an AI coding agent. Then the real tablet found six problems my laptop never showed me.
A claims process for grieving families
When someone loses a family member, claiming their life insurance shouldn't be the next ordeal. But it was. Beneficiaries had to track down the policy, then grind through a slow process to verify their identity and the claim, all while grieving. I co-led a 12-week effort to rebuild that experience: outreach that reaches the family first, an intake that asks only what each claim needs, and a status hub that always shows where things stand. We shipped a First Notice of Loss MVP and a three-year vision for the claims org.
A front door for the reader
One account-setup experience spanning every product a community newspaper sells, for a site that has no account system today. A consumer-versus-business fork routes to flows that share one component set, with the conditional steps, save-and-resume, verification, and error states most portfolios skip.
Where I've worked
Domains
Recent credentials
- Designing & Building AI Products and ServicesMIT xPRO · 2024
- Google UX Design Professional CertificateGoogle · 2024
- Pragmatic Institute PMC I & IIPragmatic Institute · 2023
- Coursework toward B.A., Graphic DesignMinnesota State University, Moorhead
Let's talk structure.
If you've got a complex, multi-product experience to design, an account-setup or enrollment flow, a design system to grow, or AI features people should actually trust, I'd like to hear about it. I'm quick to respond and easy to work with.