About
About Annie
I'm a technical product designer based in Alaska and Montana.
I’m a multi-modal mountain athlete and designer who moves through the world with curiosity, gratitude, and deep care for people, landscapes, and the living systems we’re part of.
I’m passionate about designing digital experiences with people and organizations who hold high standards of integrity and care about building useful, mission-driven products and services.
I currently volunteer as Director of Communications for the Valdez Avalanche Center, am freelancing on a mapping product, and am supporting local businesses in Alaska and Montana. I'm open to full-time remote roles and values-aligned projects.
How I work
My work sits in the often messy space between design and engineering where product decisions are made. I design mockups in Figma, build prototypes in Cursor, and measure product performance. My favorite tools are Claude, Figma, Cursor, SvelteKit, and Databricks. I'm also tinkering with MapLibre and Kepler.gl for a freelance mapping project.
Over 7+ years I've designed enterprise tools, consumer products, and built design systems that help small, medium, and large organizations operate more clearly and help people navigate complexity with more confidence. Currently I'm working as a freelance product designer, building mapping tools and supporting small businesses in Alaska and Montana with web design, analytics, and digital strategy.
I'm drawn to products that solve real problems for real people, especially tools built for the outdoors, field work, environmental science, civic organizing, and public safety. I'm also open to full-time remote roles where I can bring that same instinct to a team.
I take on independent work through Northern Notion, my Alaska-based design studio, built to support work that is grounded in place, clarity, usefulness, and care.
Let's connect
If you're building something mission-driven and purposeful, I'd love to hear about it.