Hello, I'm Erika
I turn complex problems into real products. 30 years of design leadership across NASA, Intuit, and Mural. Now building with AI agents every day. Creator of Zero Vector, a design discipline for the age of AI. Published author. Still shipping.
What I Do
Consulted, taught, and built across the globe. From advising NASA and Google to shipping my own products with AI agents. Turning complex, ambiguous problems into things that actually work.
Building with AI Agents
Shipping real products with AI agent crews. Designing, engineering, and deploying daily. Not advising from the sidelines; building in production.
Zero Vector Design
A design discipline I created for the age of AI. Seven principles and an eight-phase pipeline for building real products with intention, adopted by a growing community of practitioners.
Product Strategy & Systems Thinking
Turning ambiguity into architecture. Product, service, and innovation strategy for organizations from startups to NASA-scale government agencies.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Bringing engineering, design, product, and executive teams into alignment, and keeping them there through delivery.
Facilitation & Workshops
Decision-making sessions that produce real alignment and actionable outcomes, not just sticky notes.
Customer-Driven Problem Solving
Human-centered research and design for environments where the cost of getting it wrong is measured in lives, dollars, or trust.
What I'm Building
I don't just advise on AI-first design. I practice it. These are products I'm building and shipping with AI agent crews.
Zero Vector
A design manifesto for the age of AI agents
Seven principles, an eight-phase pipeline, and a growing community of practitioners who build real products with intention and craft.
Read the Manifesto
The Open Vector
A free, open curriculum for design-led engineering
The educational arm of Zero Vector. Six levels from orientation to auteur, with AI tutors, approach guides, and a full resource library. Free. Always.
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Fictioneer
AI-powered story development for fiction writers
A platform that gives writers perfect recall of their own canon. Built by a published author who needed it for her own 400K+ word series.
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Labrador
Open-source RAG & context middleware for any LLM
Middleware that sits between your app and any LLM, injecting persistent memory, retrieved knowledge, and identity context. MIT licensed. No vendor lock-in.
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Signature Projects
Selected case studies spanning AI strategy, enterprise product design, and organizational transformation.
AI Readiness Initiative
Leading research, facilitation, and synthesis of NASA's agency-wide AI readiness initiative
Smart Collaboration Tools
Developing new business initiatives for the future of work and smart collaboration tools
QuickBooks Billing Experience Overhaul
Saving millions of dollars through effective root-cause remediation of customer service experiences
XR/VR Collaborative Experience Prototyping
Creative direction, research, and prototyping of Mural+Meta VR collaborative work experiences
Let's work together
Whether you need strategic guidance, a builder's perspective on AI, or a fresh approach to a hard problem. Let's talk.
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