Work Index – Megumi.co
Development
| Title | Year | Scope | Description | Link |
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| California Home Builders | 2026 | Full Build |
Custom Framer build. Design by SHORE. Framer, React/TypeScript, Framer Motion, Swiper.js. |
Live Site |
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| Front: The Coordination Tax | 2026 | Full Build |
Custom Framer build. Design by Fuzzco. Framer, React/TypeScript, Framer Motion. |
Live Site |
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| Span | 2026 | Full Build |
Custom Framer build. Design by Studio Jud. Framer, React/TypeScript, Framer Motion, GSAP. |
Live Site |
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| Cal Sans UI by Cal.com | 2026 | Consulting |
Framer component development for type tester and glyph picker. Framer, React/TypeScript |
Live Site |
| PTOH Studio | 2025 | Consulting |
Prototypes for gallery interactions for Joel Sternfeld's website. Designed by PTOH Studio. Sanity, Nuxt.js, Vite |
View |
| SECOND STORY | 2025 | Consulting |
Development of a color changing scroll driven animation for LOAF brands. Design by SECOND STORY. Squarespace, JQuery |
View |
| Song Tea & Ceramics | 2024 | Full Build |
Custom Shopify theme. Shopify 2.0, Liquid |
Live Site |
| The Los Angeles Times | 2024 | Consulting |
Development for the Día de Muertos 2024 digital ofrenda in both English and Spanish. Baker, Jupyter Notebooks, Node.js, SCSS |
Live Site |
| Cosmopolitan: Sex After 60 | 2024 | Full Build |
Custom development for Cosmo’s first ever digital issue. Design by ilovecreatives Studio. Easel CMS, HTML/CSS/JS, GSAP, WaveSurfer.js |
Live Site |
| Cyklar | 2023 | Full Build |
Custom Shopify Theme for brand launch. Contracted by
ilovecreatives Studio. Design by ANOTHER.
Shopify 2.0, Liquid, Junip |
View |
| HPPY Skin | 2023 | Full Build |
Custom Shopify Theme and pre-launch waitlist. Design by CASE
Agency.
Shopify 2.0, Liquid, GSAP, Lottie, Email development, Klaviyo |
Live Site |
| Spoons, GLOWE | 2023 | Full Build |
Development of two reference themes for the ilovecreatives Shopify Course. Shopify 2.0, Liquid |
View |
| Windsor Bateman Solutions | 2023 | Full Build |
Custom Squarespace build. Design by L+L.
Squarespace, JQuery, Lottie |
View |
| Parsons BFA Photography | 2022 | Full Build |
WordPress custom theme. Design by Abby Chen.
Wordpress, PHP, CSS, Advanced Custom Fields. |
View |
| Well Fed | 2022 | Consulting |
Development for studio clients: Joggy, Santa Cruz Organics, and TYB.xyz. Squarespace, JQuery, Shopify, Liquid |
View |
| Flask & Field | 2022 | Full Build |
Custom Shopify Theme. Design by ilovecreatives Studio. Featured
as Typewolf Site of the Day.
Shopify 2.0, Liquid |
Live Site |
| STUDY by ANOTHER | 2022 | Full Build |
Microsite custom development. Design by ANOTHER.
HTML, CSS, Javascript |
View |
| Stella | 2022 | Consulting |
New homepage, header, and footer. Design by Sibling Industries.
Branding and illustration by Second Marriage Studio.
Wordpress, Advanced Custom Fields, Bedrock |
View |
| Second Marriage Studio | 2022 | Full Build |
Custom Cargo site displaying moon phases. Design by Sibling
Industries.
Cargo, Javascript |
Live Site |
| The Workshop LA | 2021 | Full Build |
Custom Squarespace site and job portal reskin.
Squarespace, CSS |
Live Site |
| MADE by DWC | 2021 | Consulting |
Shopify 1.0 theme performance improvements.
Shopify, Liquid, CSS |
View |
| Cut Fruit Collective Shop | 2021 | Full Build |
Migration from Squarespace to Shopify. Shopify, CSS, Liquid |
Live Site |
| Cut Fruit Collective | 2021 | Consulting |
Squarespace development for custom cursors, stickers, and hover effects. Squarespace, CSS, JQuery |
View |
| Green Web Template | 2021 | Template |
Open source template for publishing Obsidian notes in Jeykll.
Jekyll, Ruby, Regex |
View |
| StyleSeat Emails | 2015 | Full Build |
Email development for responsive transactional emails and marketing campaigns. Email development, HTML, CSS |
View |
| StyleSeat: Community | 2014 | Full Build |
Tumblr development as a CMS for the Marketing team for three custom sites. Tumblr API, Javascript |
View |
Design
| Title | Year | Scope | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song Tea & Ceramics | 2024 | Web |
Redesign for a Shopify store with a light brand refresh
exercise.
Figma, Web Design, Art Direction |
Live Site |
| Yardsale | 2024 | Web |
Redesign for a Shopify store with a light brand refresh
exercise.
Figma, Web Design, Art Direction |
Live Site |
| The Song Collection | 2023 | Packaging |
Packaging design for the 2023–2024 “The Song Collection” in
collaboration with Leslie Liu
Graphic Design |
View |
| Stella | 2022 | Web |
Redesign of homepage, header, and footer, operating as Sibing
Industries. Illustrations and brand by Second Marriage Studio.
Figma, Web Design |
View |
| Sibling Industries | 2022 | Brand, Web, Social |
Creative web studio focusing on the space between design and
development.
Figma, Web Design, Social Design |
View |
| Second Marriage Studio | 2022 | Web |
Portfolio redesign for Second Marriage Studio.
Figma, Web Design |
Live Site |
| The Workshop LA | 2021 | Brand, Web |
Full redesign, new logo, art direction.
Brand Identity, Art Direction, Illustrator, Figma, Web Design |
Live Site |
| Reali | 2019 | Product/UX |
Product Designer for real estate tech platform.
Product Design, User Research, Design Systems, Marketplace, Internal Tools, Software |
View |
| SkinCarisma | 2018 | Consulting |
UX Design and User Research for monetization features.
UX Design, User Research, Prototyping, Sketch, Invision |
View |
| Blossom Botanicals | 2017 | Brand, Art Direction |
Full brand identity and art direction.
Brand Identity, Art Direction, Packaging, Graphic Design, Web Design |
View |
| Soundboxing | 2017 | Brand, UX |
New logo, typeface, and web app design for a VR music game.
Survey design and results analysis to inform direction.
Brand Identity, Art Direction, User Research, UX Design |
View |
| Crew App | 2017 | Consulting |
Product Designer for FTUX, internal tools, and web/mobile apps.
Product Design, Internal Tools, Web App, Mobile app, FTUX |
View |
| Prosper | 2016 | Product/UX |
Product Designer for investor team designing the first mobile
app.
Product Design, User Research, User Interviews, Design Systems |
View |
| StyleSeat | 2014-2015 | Product/UX |
Product Designer working on every part of this two sided
marketplace. Launched “No Show Protection” feature.
Product Design, User Research, Design Systems, Illustration, Graphic Design, A/B Testing, Web Design, Email Design, Mobile App Design |
View |
| Airseed | 2013 | UI, Web |
Built out design language for landing pages and email marketing.
Graphic Design, Illustration, Web Design, Email Design, Photoshop, Illustrator |
View |
Teaching
| Title | Year | Scope | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parsons School of Design | 2024 | Teacher |
Adjunct for coding track in Core 1: Interaction. Communication
Design AAS program.
HTML, CSS, JS, p5.js |
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| Shopify Course | 2023 | Teacher |
Shopify Liquid, HTML, CSS, JS, and design thinking.
Online Course, Curriculum Design, Office Hours |
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| Parsons School of Design | 2023 | Guest Crit | Guest critique for Core 1: Interaction, taught by Nikki Makagiansar. Communication Design BFA program. | |
| Index Space | 2021–2022 | Consulting | Head of Education, working with teachers to shape their courses. | View |
| Code Demos | 2021 | Tutorial | Instructional website created for my students at Index. | Live Site |
| Intro to Coding for Designers | 2021 | Teacher |
Fall cohort. 6 week course at Index.
Teaching, Curriculum Design |
View |
| Intro to Coding for Designers | 2021 | Teacher |
Spring cohort. 6 week course at Index.
Teaching, Curriculum Design |
Case Study |
| DesignLab | 2015-2018 | Mentor |
Met with students weekly, offering guidance and feedback on
their capstone projects.
UX Academy, Design 101, User Research, Typography, UI Design |
View |
| Learning Portal | 2015 | Tutorial | Created tutorials on Sketch and Photoshop for UX/UI Designers. | View |
| Beginner’s Guide to Sketch | 2015 | Tutorial | Wrote a tutorial series on Sketch based on the needs of General Assembly students. | View |
| General Assembly | 2015 | Expert in Residence | TA for UX Design Immersive in San Francisco. |
Speaking
| Title | Year | Scope | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pockets: Full-time or freelance | 2025 | Panelist | Spoke on panel for Pockets at Index Space. | View |
| Are.na Annual 2025 Book Launch | 2024 | Reading | I read an excerpt of my essay for the Are.na Annual 2025 at HEART 442 Broadway. | Watch |
| Teaching Curious? | 2023 | Panelist | Spoke on a panel for designers interested in teaching. Hosted at Parsons by AIGA NY. | View |
Writing
| Title | Year | Scope | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Banks | 2024 | Essay | Essay for the Are.na Annual 2025 publication, theme of “document” | Read |
| Creating a CMS with Tumblr | 2015 | Article | Written for StyleSeat’s Medium account. | Read |
Media
| Title | Year | Scope | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify Course: Trailer | 2023 | Performer |
Filmed trailer for ilovecreatives course on a blue screen in LA.
Script writing, Improv |
Watch |
| Shopify Course: Lessons | 2022 | Video Editing |
Edited video lessons for ilovecreatives course.
Adobe Premiere, Frame.io |
View |
| California College of the Arts | 2009 | Creative Tech |
Created a webcam powered theremin. Coded a synthesizer that
mapped photoresistor light values to sound. Student projects.
Max/MSP/Jitter, Arduino |
Labs
| Title | Year | Type | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time Crystal | 2026 | Software |
Indie software for freelancer business intelligence. In
development.
Web app, Mac app |
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| the tea table (ttt) | 2025 | Workshop | Educational workshop and tea service at telos haus. | View |
| The Garden | 2023 | Blog | Started a new blog, this time in Wordpress. | View |
| Noisy Garbage | 2022 | Generative Art |
Generative AI experiments.
Dall-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Photoshop Generative Fill |
View |
| megu.space | 2021 | Blog | Digital garden using Jekyll and Obsidian. | View |
Archive
| Title | Year | Role | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August | 2025 | Consultant | Web design consulting for new packaging rollout. | |
| NICE Car Company | 2025 | Art Direction | Shopify theme design and Figma prototyping. | |
| ilovecreatives Studio | 2024 | Studio Manager | Project Management & Sales for studio projects across branding, web, digital marketing, video production, and OOH campaigns. | |
| monopo night vol. 5 | 2024 | Server | Brewed shincha green tea for monopo night hosted at Index. | View |
| Save Our Chinatowns | 2021 | Consultant | Consulting for Lunar New Year Zine Launch | |
| SF Zine Fest | 2020 | Vendor | Designed a zine and stickers. | View |
| Song Tea & Ceramics | 2013 | Sales |
Tea merchant in San Francisco, CA. |
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| UC Berkeley | 2013 | Student Work | Designed and prototyped a web app for Technology & Entrepreneurship class. | |
| Gaumenkitzel | 2012 | Server | German restaurant in Berkeley, CA. | |
| Sugata Japanese Cuisine | 2011 | Server | Japanese restaurant in Albany, CA. | |
| Red Blossom Tea Co. | 2010 | Sales | Tea merchant in San Francisco, CA. | |
| Lupicia Fresh Tea | 2009 | Sales | Tea merchant in San Francisco, CA. | |
| California College of the Arts | 2009 | Student Work | Majored in photography where I worked on color processing and mural size silver gelatin prints. | |
| J. Crew | 2009 | Sales | Retail Associate in San Francisco, CA. | |
| Curry House | 2009 | Server | Japanese restaurant in Cupertino, CA. | |
| De Anza College | 2008 | Assistant | Lab Tech Assistant in the photography darkroom in Cupertino, CA. | |
| College Now Program | 2008 | Education | Attended classes at De Anza College in lieu of high school coursework. | |
| Shaw Chiropractic | 2008 | Receptionist | Admin Assistant in San Jose, CA. Developed a custom website in PHP. | |
| Journey's Shoes | 2008 | Sales | Retail Associate in Westfield mall in San Jose, CA. | |
| Cupertino HS Choir | 2005–2008 | Soloist | Acapella and advanced women's choir soloist for several concerts, including playing Elphaba in a performance of Wicked. | |
| Michael's | 2007 | Sales | Retail Associate in Mountain View, CA. | |
| Sanrio | 2007 | Sales | Retail Associate in Westfield mall in San Jose, CA. | |
| Sears Portrait Studio | 2007 | Photographer | Photographer in Vallco mall in Cupertino, CA. | |
| Cupertino HS Cafeteria | 2006 | Cashier | Cafeteria worker during lunch breaks and brunch. | |
| “Freelance” Development | 2004–2005 | Webmaster | Designed & developed custom logos and websites for tech companies using a proprietary PHP-based content management system. I worked in exchange for forum flair points. | |
| nutmeg13 on Xanga | 2003-2005 | Designer | Designed Xanga themes released through Createblog.org. | View |
| Fnazz.org | 2003-2005 | Webmaster | Published graphic design tutorials and fluid CSS resources. Hosted design contests and provided free server space and subdomains. | |
| dreamer.happy-dagger.net | 2002 | Webmaster | Documented a Photoshop Elements 2.0 workaround to emulate a Photoshop 7.0 feature. | |
| ~Tilde Era | 1999-2001 | Webmaster | Built websites for fun using Microsoft FrontPage. Published sites on Geocities and ~tilde username servers. |