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I’m Yoko. I like street cats, jacket weather, and inviting friends on errands. I live in the greatest neighborhood of all time! with my husband and two chaotic roommates: a middle-aged feline and an infant human. I grew up on the Upper West Side and spent some formative college years in Southern California. I use both she/her and they/them pronouns.
Professionally, I’ve been a designer for 15+ years, most recently a Staff Product Designer at Etsy. But I’m currently taking a break to explore what else might be out there for me.
I still like talking shop, especially with prospective designers from underrepresented backgrounds. If this is you and you want to chat, read more here. You can also email me; that’s cool too :)
This wobsite
I’m a web development hobbyist and have been fumbling through making my own websites for the last 25 years. This site is made with Jekyll, and it runs on Github Pages. I get some help from Claude, but ultimately I’m writing the code myself, bugs and all.
I use two fonts from the inimitable Grilli Type for this site: the sans-serif is GT America and the serif is GT Pantheon.