I’m Cori. I build systems that keep digital experiences from turning into slop.
I founded the content design practice at Discord, trained LLMs and shaped data privacy at Tinder, and advise on new courses at Button School.
What I do
I make the words on your screen make sense.
How I do it
I type some text into boxes. Then I move things around until fewer people are upset.
Where I plug in
I’m usually brought in when something looks finished but still confuses people, a feature is ready and nobody knows what to call it, or a team has built content debt faster than anyone can pay it down and the company robot isn’t helping.
How I lead/leave a team
I start from scratch as well as I fill gaps. At Discord I founded the practice, defining how we partnered with product and design, setting critique and review norms, hiring and promoting writers into the practice, and leaving reusable systems (taxonomies, flows, string ownership) so squads could ship without reinventing the wheel. I lead by doing the work, and by building standards, rituals, coaching, and tooling that keeps our craft from becoming a bottleneck.
How I like to work
I’m curious, practical, and decisive. I’ll tell you what I need to know, what I need from you, and what “later” will cost if we kick it down the road. I do my best work when I can present my own recommendations to stakeholders, push back in good faith, and leave with clear next steps. Lawyers and engineers are some of my favorite people to work with, because we love arguing and putting agreements in writing.
Where I thrive
- Framing problems and goals so everyone can actually agree
- Naming the work, assigning owners, and moving with purpose
- Committing my own code and architecting solutions that last
- Unblocking others and helping them build skills and confidence
- Agitating against incentives that enshittify the world we live in
About
Web, UX, and product designer with a bias for language and institutional memory.
I’ve led content at tech companies of various sizes, growth stages, and maturity levels. I’ve taught people how to design, write, code, and how to talk to robots; I’ve also taught robots how to talk to humans. Against all odds, I remain hopeful for a future where intelligent beings, real or synthetic, can finally learn to write good CSS.
Startups joined
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Tinder Staff content designer (contract) • LLMs and data privacy 2024 – 2025
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Discord Founding content designer • built the practice across product 2021 – 2024
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Automatic ( SiriusXM ) UX design lead • automotive hardware and software 2014 – 2016
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GemShare ( Nextdoor ) Designer-developer • early stage consumer product 2013 – 2014
Classes taught
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Button School Advanced Figma ( co-authored ), AI Coding for Product Designers 2022 – present
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Designlab Design 101, Design Foundations, UX Research 2018 – 2020
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Ironhack UX/UI Bootcamp 2018 + 2019
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Thinkful Product Design 2018 – 2019
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General Assembly Visual Design 2016
Skills alleged
- Content design/UX writing, information architecture
- Agent/LLM training, taxonomy, content modeling
- Product strategy, design systems, rapid prototyping
- Inclusive design, user research, A/B testing, WCAG
- Cursor, Figma, Git, HTML/CSS/JS