For the past decade, I’ve led experience design grounded in human values, systems thinking, and product strategy. Most recently, I served as Lead Product Designer at Torch, a leadership coaching platform in San Francisco.
For the past decade, I’ve led experience design grounded in human values, systems thinking, and product strategy. Most recently, I served as Lead Product Designer at Torch, a leadership coaching platform in San Francisco.
Approach to product work
I thrive in creative teams making a positive impact and investing in strong organizational practices. My work blends systems thinking, product strategy, and craft to create products that succeed for both people and business. I’ve led initiatives spanning research, strategy, simplifying complex UX, elevating craft, improving accessibility, unifying platforms and design systems, and designing AI-assisted workflows. I care about building tools that help people achieve more and ideally experience moments of clarity and beauty.
Approach to product work
I thrive in creative teams making a positive impact and investing in strong organizational practices. My work blends systems thinking, product strategy, and craft to create products that succeed for both people and business. I’ve led initiatives spanning research, strategy, simplifying complex UX, elevating craft, improving accessibility, unifying platforms and design systems, and designing AI-assisted workflows. I care about building tools that help people achieve more and ideally experience moments of clarity and beauty.
Design philosophy
I hold a few principles that guide my practice, how I see design operate within culture, and what I believe it should aim for:
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Form follows meaning. Design should express the essential truth of what something is.
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Design encodes and reflects human meaning systems.
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Design can reveal invisible forces — values, motivations, metaphors — so people can navigate by them.
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Systems should organize complexity and act as scaffolds for humanity and adaptation.
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Design should affirm dignity and belonging, especially at the margins.
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Good design is the craft of integration — making the fragmented feel whole.
Design philosophy
I hold a few principles that guide my practice, how I see design operate within culture, and what I believe it should aim for:
•
Form follows meaning. Design should express the essential truth of what something is.
•
Design encodes and reflects human meaning systems.
•
Design can reveal invisible forces — values, motivations, metaphors — so people can navigate by them.
•
Systems should organize complexity and act as scaffolds for humanity and adaptation.
•
Design should affirm dignity and belonging, especially at the margins.
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Good design is the craft of integration — making the fragmented feel whole.
Approach to teamwork
I believe personal growth strengthens leadership and leads to better outcomes in work and in life. On every team, I bring the honesty to surface tough truths and the care to support mindset and behavioral shifts. My approach draws from training in mindfulness-based developmental coaching, behavior change, and human values theory. Earlier in my career, I co-founded a values-driven consultancy, which helped shape the lens I bring to both product and team environments today. Outside of design, I volunteer at developmental retreats and maintain a small coaching practice.
Approach to teamwork
I believe personal growth strengthens leadership and leads to better outcomes in work and in life. On every team, I bring the honesty to surface tough truths and the care to support mindset and behavioral shifts. My approach draws from training in mindfulness-based developmental coaching, behavior change, and human values theory. Earlier in my career, I co-founded a values-driven consultancy, which helped shape the lens I bring to both product and team environments today. Outside of design, I volunteer at developmental retreats and maintain a small coaching practice.
Parker is a strong systems thinker who thoughtfully considers many different underlying facets of a problem in ways that often cause me to reconsider a design or solution.
Product Designer at Torch
Parker is a strong systems thinker who thoughtfully considers many different underlying facets of a problem in ways that often cause me to reconsider a design or solution.
Product Designer at Torch
It is his honesty, openness to new ideas and personal integrity that resonate with everyone he comes into contact with.
Director of Engineering at GNARBOX
It is his honesty, openness to new ideas and personal integrity that resonate with everyone he comes into contact with.
Director of Engineering at GNARBOX
He wins together by being a supportive, cross-functional team member, working with Product and Engineering to accelerate.
Company culture award at Torch
He wins together by being a supportive, cross-functional team member, working with Product and Engineering to accelerate.
Company culture award at Torch