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 last decade's experience has been in developer tooling and observability (think 3am, an alert just woke you up, and your site stopped responding for reasons), 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 engineers who live one layer below the interface. Learning a new domain is the part I enjoy most.

At New Relic I helped bring template variables to Dashboards and built a framework for custom visualizations; at Elastic I designed the log-processing workflows SREs lean on under pressure, and right now I'm working on a visualizer for managing data streams. The domain might change but the method doesn't: Every one of these started with me not understanding the users' work, and ended with me understanding it well enough to argue about it.

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 on Elastic's Observability solution, designing tools and workflows that help developers troubleshoot software faster.
2020 – 2024
As a 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. As a Senior Product Designer, I led the design work that brought template variables to Dashboards, and built a framework for crafting custom visualizations.
2017 – 2020
I worked as a Product Designer and as Head of Design, also managing a small team (4) for this education platform used in over 50% of U.S. schools, focused on easy video editing tools and powerful analytics.
2015 – 2017
I was a Product Designer on this mobile-first, second-hand marketplace with 15M+ users.
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