Principal Product Designer
UX and Product Designer with 14+ years of experience across EdTech, HealthTech, and civic-tech platforms. I design from research through shipped product — user interviews, wireframes, prototypes, and design systems in Figma. I bring a systems-thinking background from industrial design and two US patents to every digital product I work on.

Designing Your Own Lifeline: A Framework for Systems & Resilience.
Designing Your Own Lifeline is an exploration of
highstakes decision making and the architecture of personal resilience. Drawing from 14 years of engineering complex physical and digital products, James Blake deconstructs how we build "safeties" into our lives, just as we do in mission-critical software.