Boxara – Hand Crafted 3D Frames

Rebuilding an online store around the story of the product.

Project overview

Boxara makes handcrafted 3D paper art: framed pieces built from paper, ornaments, and small figures, somewhere between a gift and a piece of interior decor. They already had a website, but it was unfinished, and the products were not presented in a way that made sense of what they actually were.

Role

I took this on as developer, designer, and ongoing growth consultant. That started with restructuring the WordPress and WooCommerce setup and completely redesigning how the products were presented, and it has continued since as an ongoing relationship where I keep tracking and adjusting the store’s growth plan.

The Lysts – Social Media App

Growing from product designer into the person who ran the data behind the product.

Project overview

The Lysts is a social app for saving and sharing lists, restaurants, recipes, places, anything worth recommending, with a standout feature that lets you drop in a link from Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, or Google Maps and have the app pull in the details automatically.

Role and growth

I joined as a product designer and the role grew from there. Over about a year working with them through NeatPixel, I ended up owning the product’s data layer too: connecting and implementing Amplitude, deciding what metrics and events were worth tracking, and writing the instructions the development team built against. Part of that work was going back through existing tracking and fixing places where the context was missing or just wrong.

What I built

Alongside the product and analytics work, I built the team’s entire design system and the Figma to Jira handoff process from scratch, giving the team one place for handoff, one for work in progress, and one for testing, all connected to Jira. That whole setup ran on its own, on top of everything else.