My Designs Are

thoughtful.

Amy VorchheimerSenior Product DesignerSan Francisco

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About Me

I design it, then I build it.

Hi, I'm Amy. I'm a senior product designer who's spent the last 9 years designing products people actually use, from FDA-cleared surgical software to conversational AI.

Most recently, I was UX/UI Design Lead at ALSAC / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, where I led design across 8 internal fundraising products. I drove 0-to-1 design on Hope, a conversational AI agent that reached 65% call deflection in four months. I also pitched and led a platform rebuild that powers more than $650M in fundraising and built two design systems from scratch. These days, I spend just as much time building as I do designing. I prototype in code every day with Claude Code and Cursor, and recently designed and built a production-ready platform for a small business client in Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Supabase. Every page on this site is custom code I wrote myself.

Outside of work, you'll usually find me hiking with my dogs Honey and Max, throwing pottery on the wheel, or catching live music around San Francisco.

Expertise

What I bring to the table

Research
User InterviewsUsability TestingField StudiesJourney MappingConversational DesignUser Flows
Design
Interaction DesignDesign SystemsPrototyping in CodeAI Agent DesignWireframingMicro-interactions
Strategy
UX Strategy0-to-1 Product DesignSystems ThinkingCross-functional LeadershipProblem SolvingAdaptability
Tools
FigmaClaude CodeCursorReact & TypeScriptFramerStorybookChakra UISalesforce Einstein

The Work & The Person

Beyond the screen

St. Jude event photo 1

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / ALSAC

Pottery photo

Pottery

Max

Max

St. Jude event photo 2

St. Jude / ALSAC

Mental Health Hackathon photo

Mental Health Hackathon

Honey & Max

Honey & Max

Hackathon photo

Hackathon

Design Philosophy

"Design is how you earn a user's trust, one micro-decision at a time. The most impactful UX is invisible: users never think about it because it just works."