Foursquare

After Foursquare acquired Superlocal, I joined as Tech Lead for Product & Design, continuing to design Superlocal as a product within the Foursquare ecosystem while leading the design of Foursquare's next-generation consumer search.

My current focus is the conversational place search experience: an API and product surface that lets anyone ask for places the way they'd ask a friend. "Find me a romantic Italian restaurant in Chicago." "Cheap cafes near me with outdoor seating." "A quiet place to work with good wifi." My job is to design how that conversation feels: the query patterns, the results surface, and the justification UI that tells you why a place is being recommended. And to make sure the system earns trust by staying grounded in real, verified place data instead of model hallucinations.

A design decision that shaped the whole product: the AI never speaks for the data. Every recommendation traces back to a specific, verifiable fact about a place. When a restaurant is called "romantic," the UI can show you the tips and signals that earned it that label. That's not a style choice. It's the central design principle of grounded AI search, and it runs through every screen and every response.

Day-to-day, I work across product, design, and engineering, shaping the consumer experience and helping build the next generation of location intelligence products.