Product & UX/UI Designer · Taking on client work
I design and ship product interfaces for early-stage startups. Most engagements wrap inside a month.
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Recent clients
Kakeru Finance, The Wakilisha Collection, and The Fashionable Frequent Flyers.
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Platforms
iOS, Android, and web.
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Where I work
Virginia, working remotely with clients anywhere.
Three ways to bring me onto a project, plus custom scope for anything larger.
Design Sprint
Flat fee
$6,500
One week
A focused week where I dig into the problem, sketch wireframes, and deliver high-fidelity mockups for one main flow.
Good fit if you’ve stalled on a key screen or need something polished for an investor demo.
DetailsBuild Sprint
Starts at
$22,000
Three to four weeks
I design and ship a working piece of your product. Could be a landing page, an onboarding flow, or a dashboard MVP.
You get the design and the deployed code from the same person, so nothing gets lost in handoff.
DetailsEmbedded Design Partner
Starts at
$12,000/mo
Three-month minimum
I work as your part-time design and front-end lead. Sprint participation, weekly check-ins, async in your Slack.
Fits founders pushing toward Series A who don’t have design hires yet.
DetailsRunning an online store? See the Conversion Sprint, one week of teardown and shipped fixes built for e-commerce.
80K+ downloads Lead UX/UI Designer
Shipped on iOS and Android, with 80K+ downloads across both apps.
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Research, Direction, UX/UI & Build
Full research-to-build cycle in 8 weeks. Paused in 2025 when Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business covering the same space.
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UX/UI Designer, end to end
End-to-end product design and a documented design system for a complex DeFi platform. Kakeru wound down later in 2025.
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UX/UI Design & Build
Replaced a string of failed redesigns with one cohesive, mobile-first storefront and a checkout built to convert.
View case study“We’d been through it. Multiple developers, multiple redesigns, nothing that stuck. By the time Erick came in we were a little skeptical. Six weeks later the storefront finally looked like the clothing, and the mobile checkout stopped the bleeding we’d been ignoring for years.”
“Erick took a genuinely complicated product and turned it into something a normal person could use. The design system he handed our engineering team was thorough enough that they could keep building without him in the room every day. The whole stretch was the smoothest design engagement we’d run.”
“Our old site had been falling apart for a year. Slow, getting flagged as insecure, looking nothing like our brand. Erick rebuilt all of it in a month and slipped a working shop in on top. It finally feels like ours, and honestly we love working with him.”
For projects that need real engineering, I work with Steven Hagene at Semper Digital Solutions, an SDVOSB-certified development shop. Steven and I have been working together since we were on the same product team at Computershare. He brings 10+ years of full-stack production experience, with a network of strategists, developers, and designers he can pull in when a project calls for it.
Together that covers design, front-end, back-end, and infrastructure under one timeline, without the overhead of a bigger agency. BizNav, featured above in Selected Work, is one such project: I owned the design and front-end, Steven engineered the app.
Semper Digital SolutionsI came to UX from graphic design, which is why I care as much about how something looks as how it works. The part I enjoy most is figuring out what someone is trying to get done, then getting out of their way. I also sweat the parts a lot of people skip, like spacing, wording, empty states, and the order things load in. That’s usually what separates an interface that feels solid from one that feels cheap.
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