Role
Lead UX Designer (sole designer on the initiative)
This work required making what not to ship just as explicit as what to ship.
I led UX strategy and design for the foundational enterprise coverage experience at Tidal Cyber, enabling security leaders to understand coverage, gaps, and confidence across multiple environments—without drowning in operational detail.
This work established the design patterns, mental models, and guardrails that later enabled executive reporting, coverage aggregation, and scalable expansion of the platform.
Status: Shipped foundation; capabilities expanded over time
Enterprise customers needed to reason about security coverage across many tools, environments, and frameworks—but the existing experience forced them to evaluate maps one at a time, at an operational level.
This created real risk:
The business needed a way to surface signal without oversimplifying reality.
1. Prioritized clarity over completeness
Rather than expose every metric at once, the experience emphasized what matters first—with progressive depth for experts.
2. Designed framework-aware patterns
I recommended hiding or gating visualizations when a framework’s structure couldn’t be accurately represented—preventing misleading outputs.
3. Established executive-safe abstractions
Coverage confidence and gaps were framed in ways that supported decision-making without implying false accuracy.
4. Built for extension, not perfection
The foundation was intentionally modular, enabling later additions like rollups and comparisons without UX debt.
By investing in UX structure early, the product avoided costly redesigns later.
