I design software for people who are already having a bad day.

Hey! I'm Patri. I design for domains where the data is dense and the stakes are real, the kind of software where the interface is standing between someone and an answer they need now. Most of my experience has been in developer tooling and observability (think 3am, an alert just woke you up, and your site stopped responding), but the problem is the same anywhere experts work under pressure.

How I work


With 10+ years of product design experience, I work end to end: I start from the problem behind the feature request, get people aligned early, and design in systems so the work holds up as it scales. My background is in Design and Art History: two ways of asking how things are built, why they ended up that way, and how they're connected to the world; which is roughly how I ended up designing for technical users: learning a new domain is the part I enjoy most.

Currently, I use AI to prototype real interactions in Cursor (this site is one of them, shipped on Vercel) and to poke holes in my own thinking before a stakeholder has to.

Experience

2024 – Now
Senior Product Designer
I work on Elastic's Observability solution, designing tools and workflows that help developers troubleshoot software faster.
2020 – 2024
Lead Product Designer
I worked within a dedicated team to maintain and scale a Design System for over 900 engineers and 30–40 designers, while helping redesign the platform, its core components, and the theming experience.
Senior Product Designer
I led the design work that brought template variables to Dashboards, and built a framework for crafting custom visualizations.
2017 – 2020
Head of Design
I managed a small yet mighty team with 3 direct reports for this education platform used in over 50% of U.S. schools, focused on easy video editing tools and powerful analytics.
Product Designer
I designed features and services, owning the end-to-end process from early research to the smallest details across different platforms: Android, iOS, and Web.
2015 – 2017
Product Designer
For this mobile-first, second-hand marketplace with 15M+ users, I worked on the team responsible for monetizing the platform (iOS and Android) and on a heavy-duty back office website for the moderation team.
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