I'm Megan. Product designer and engineer,
based in Nashville.

I started in design, then kept going straight into the code. I wanted to see what actually happens after handoff, not just hear about it secondhand. So I learned to build, and it changed how I design — shipping your own work makes the tradeoffs a lot more real.

These days I build full-stack — Next.js, Supabase, live APIs — with Cursor and Claude woven into the process. Not because AI does the design thinking for me, but because the gap between a mockup and a working product is where the real decisions live: the auth edge cases, the empty states, what breaks when real data shows up.

I'm drawn to complex workflows and product systems — the kind of problems you only really see once something is live.

Lately I'm curious about where AI and human judgment overlap in a product — when a tool should just act, and when someone genuinely wants to stay in the loop. I try to design for that honestly, rather than defaulting to full automation and adding the friction back in later.

Outside of work, I'm usually planning my next trip, at the gym, cooking something I have no business attempting, or walking my dog Finn.