Dogly Product Design
Building a coherent, image-led product language across six years of expert content, community, subscriptions, onboarding, daily guidance, and commerce.
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Building a coherent, image-led product language across six years of expert content, community, subscriptions, onboarding, daily guidance, and commerce.
Connecting discovery, conversation, personalized email, daily plans, subscriptions, and live expert groups into a membership journey that increased subscriptions by more than 40%.
Designing a resumable Advocate application and transparent review workflow inside a mature Rails marketplace without forcing a platform rewrite.
Designing browse and match modes for finding the right professional in a content-rich Rails application.
Turning Dogly's retail catalog into an operational bulk-ordering workflow that produced a first retained order of $11,935.90 across 210 cases.
How I move a team from unconstrained ideas to a shared north star, prioritized MVP, design, and reviewable technical scope.
A retail communication problem taught me to design around where work happens, not where a process document assumes it happens.
How I adjust technical disagreement for peers, developing engineers, senior engineers, and business stakeholders.
Performance matters, but removing the visual quality users value is not automatically an optimization.
How to combine exact identifiers, cautious matching, operator decisions, and durable mappings when two commerce systems disagree.