Vincent started his career in a chemistry lab in Australia. Now he designs financial products in New York.
He brings a scientist’s curiosity to complex systems, currently shaping account architecture and onboarding at 
River Financial. He has also designed for 
NASA Goddard Center, 
Peloton and 
Instrument.
My passion lies in closing the distance between people and the things that feel out of reach.
With a background in UX design and an interest in finance, I turn complex information into experiences that feel familiar and easy to trust.
Before joining River's product team, I worked as a web designer, UX strategist and chemistry lab assistant. I've had the pleasure of working with clients across a wide range of fields.
B.F.A. User Experience Design
Savannah College of Art and Design
IDSA Silver Award, 2024
Red Dot Design Award, 2023
The Rookies, Rookie of the Year Finalist, 2023
River
Product Designer II
Second Nature
Product Designer
Peloton
Product Design Associate
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
UX Designer
Instrument
UX Strategy Intern
Redesigning River’s sign up for individual and business accounts
River is a bitcoin financial institution, and every new client has to pass identity and regulatory checks before they can use their account. Sign up is the first real conversation River has with them.
As lead designer, I redesigned onboarding end to end, working with engineering through a full React rebuild and with brand and marketing while the new identity took shape.
The old sign up squeezed every question into just a few steps. It looked short on paper, but each step asked for four or five inputs at once. That overload landed right when clients were deciding whether to trust us, and many dropped off before creating an account.
The copy didn’t help. It read robotic and transactional, which put distance between River and the client. For a product that has to feel trustworthy, onboarding felt cold.
I broke the flow into a conversational sequence that asks for each piece of information when it makes sense, not all at once. The journey moves through three phases: creating the account, verifying login details, and collecting personal information. Each step asks for less, so progress feels steady instead of overwhelming.
I also rebuilt the inputs. Fields validate as clients type, addresses come from search instead of manual entry, and area code and state use dropdowns instead of free text. Small changes, but together they make each step faster to clear, so reaching the end of onboarding never feels like work.
Two things made this hard. Engineering rebuilt sign up from the ground up while River was mid-rebrand, so every screen had to keep pace with a brand still taking shape. And onboarding is full of edge cases, from identities that can’t be verified to addresses that don’t qualify. I designed each path so the experience stayed clear and trustworthy.
Sign up has to keep evolving as technology and security requirements change. At that pace, the quiet risk isn’t only technical debt. It’s teams rebuilding pieces that were never designed to scale, and every rebuild makes a modern experience harder to get right.
For me, that’s the moment to step back, observe, and look at the bigger picture. Design can be the bridge: artifacts that show engineering and leadership what good looks like, and earn enough trust to justify the bigger lift a rebuild takes.
An immersive HUD system for a Mars mission
The concept simulates a HUD/FUI system that adapts to each situation as a rover travels to Mars. It starts from the pilot’s perspective and layers in visual elements at each stage of the mission.
Each screen surfaces the information the pilot needs in that moment, tied together by a cohesive visual language.
A card system that increases scannability and engagement
Salesforce is an established brand, but Salesforce+ was a new streaming platform with no design foundation at all. As its library grew, it needed a way to show everything it had to offer, so viewers could scan a row, spot what fits their interests and decide whether a title was worth their time.
Partnering with the team at Instrument, I shaped the UX strategy for a card system built around two user needs. The first was scannability: every card should convey its most important information at a glance. The second was content resonance: viewers should be able to judge whether a title fits their interests, the time they have and the format they prefer. Meeting both would drive more clicks to Play, Learn More and Save, and more sign-ups through the platform.
The system became the platform’s first visual and interaction foundation, with tags and badges that adapt as new kinds of content arrive, and accessibility and readability built in from the start.
An offline workout tracking system
Just Work Out lets Peloton members start a workout and track their metrics without picking a class. But without an internet connection, they couldn’t start a workout at all, or risked losing one already in progress. Offline support was one of the most requested features.
Keeping the experience consistent across edge cases meant finding every checkpoint that could affect the flow. I worked closely with engineers to find the simplest way to cover every scenario.
The device caches workout data as soon as a workout starts. When the workout ends, it checks for a connection. If there is one, it uploads the workout and syncs it to the member’s account. If not, it keeps the data cached until it can.
The challenge wasn’t visual. It was mapping every edge case and working with engineers to find a solution that kept the experience clear and consistent in any connection state.
The goal was to communicate workout status accurately while staying within the existing design system, keeping the solution lightweight enough to ship quickly.
Making NASA satellite data easy to explore, for the public and for scientists
SlideRule is NASA’s tool for requesting ICESat-2 elevation data without downloading massive files. It was built by and for scientists, which made it hard for anyone else to use.
Through SCADpro, I led UX for a partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. We studied how scientists use the tool today, then designed two paths: an approachable entry point for the public and an advanced mode that speeds up research workflows.
It’s a NASA satellite that fires 10,000 laser pulses per second at Earth’s surface to measure elevation precisely, from ice sheets and sea ice to forests, land and oceans.
Scientists use it to track how the planet is changing, from ice loss to shifts in vegetation and terrain.
SlideRule lets anyone request ICESat-2 data without downloading massive files or processing them by hand. Pick an area of the Earth, and it pulls the relevant data from NASA’s archives and returns just what you need.
Below is the tool as it was before our redesign.
We started with a deep dive into how scientists use the tool today. From there, the project had two goals: lower the barrier for the public to explore valuable satellite data, and design an advanced mode that speeds up research workflows.
Researchers often run many requests and compare the results side by side. Advanced mode lets them queue requests, track each one’s status and review the results in one place.
BEFOREAFTERWhat started as a proposal became a working partnership with the ICESat-2 team. I presented the design at Goddard Space Flight Center, and the scientists who rely on SlideRule validated the direction.
SlideRule’s code is maintained by a single NASA scientist, so once the ideas were validated, we delivered a design system to make it easier to build. Changes at NASA go through several layers of review, so the redesign is still on its way. In the meantime, the proposed redesign is featured in the NASA ICESat-2 mission documentation.
A rebranded River.com that grew business and private client inquiries
River is a bitcoin financial institution for individuals, businesses and private clients. As the company rebranded, River.com needed to say more with less: concise messaging on every page that still felt premium and trustworthy.
As lead designer, I redesigned the site with our brand designer and the marketing team, and built the card and section system behind every page with another product designer.
The old River.com mixed mismatched components with an outdated visual language. It was hard to maintain and made a weak first impression on prospective clients.
Every page repeated the same content, so visitors were overloaded and River’s value for each audience got buried.
With our brand designer, I defined a card and section system every page could adopt while carrying the new information architecture. I also worked with the marketing team to refine the content strategy.
On the homepage, I pushed for a full-width section that marketing can rotate between campaigns, and helped produce its visual assets with the brand designer.
We launched with 21 pages, and I built them with another product designer.
We started with the section components and card system, built on the new rebrand tokens, with every page behind a feature flag.
Getting the foundation right took a few days, with a senior engineer reviewing the code. After that, the two of us built pages like Lego, snapping sections together instead of starting from scratch.
Within three months of launch, engagement on River.com went up, and so did inquiries from business and private clients.
More than the numbers, I’m proud of how we got there. Design, engineering and marketing worked as one team, and the site now conveys River’s message more precisely.
