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Client: Bjorn G. Amelan (Artist)
Bjorn is a visual artist whose paintings, made on antique French hemp bedsheets in Sumi ink, acrylic, and vinylic emulsion, have been exhibited at New York Live Arts, The Garage NYC, and Longhouse Foundation, with works held in the collections of Agnes Gund and 21c Museum Hotels. He came to me through a personal connection, introduced by my brother Jonathan, who photographs for both of us.
The ask on the surface was a portfolio website. What it actually required was translation. Bjorn had strong instincts about how his work should feel but no framework for getting those instincts into a site. That gap is exactly where I work.
I started with feeling before structure. His work is intimate and monumental at once, made from the sheets he and his husband sleep on, hung like tapestries, dense with imagery that rewards the longer you look. The site needed that same quality. Unhurried, material, serious without being cold.
Everything followed from that. EB Garamond for the typography, warm off-white and near-black for the palette, a single scrolling home page with the full body of work presented chronologically. No decorative accents. No color beyond the artwork itself. The work speaks for itself and the design gets out of the way.
The build is hand-coded in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, no frameworks, no CMS, deployed via Netlify. I also developed a full photography brief for 19 works that needed reshooting, including a shooting guide diagram, and coordinated the reshoot with the photographer. Patient Safety Incident Reporting System
Patient safety reporting at Northwell Health was spread across Jira tickets, email attachments, and an Access database. Reports were often duplicated, supporting documents were difficult to locate, and staff had limited visibility into ownership and resolution status. I led the design of a centralized reporting platform that supported the full incident lifecycle across 20 hospitals.
As lead designer, I owned the UX and visual design from discovery through validation. I interviewed clinicians, patient safety leaders, and operational teams to understand how incidents were reported, reviewed, escalated, and resolved. I mapped the fragmented process, defined the needs and permissions of each user group, and designed guided reporting flows that balanced fast submission with structured data capture. I also facilitated a five-day design sprint to align clinical, product, engineering, and compliance partners before development.
The final platform gave frontline staff a faster way to submit incidents and allowed multiple contributors to work from one shared report. Automated reminders, visible status tracking, and structured data helped reviews move forward while giving leadership a clearer view of trends and recurring risks. The system reduced duplicate reporting, improved staff adoption, and created a more reliable foundation for learning from safety events and near misses.
