Misty Cripps · Vaquita DesignCase Studies
Selected projects from my current and past design and engineering practice. The focus of my current work is AI-augmented workflows and agentic systems for judgment-intensive content pipelines. Earlier work spans mobile, wearable, and enterprise interaction design across form factors that didn’t yet have established conventions.
A content production pipeline designed around trust
Content production & delivery pipeline
Overview of the end-to-end process, including approval workflow, author normalization, image creation, and social media.
Automated content approval workflow
Gravity Forms + Gravity Flow with custom hooks that gate content creation behind evaluation and acceptance. Per-genre routing, payment-aware structure, two approval gates: editor approval and creator permission to publish.
Author Normalization
An LLM-augmented pipeline that turns inconsistent submission data into clean contributor records. Bio rewriting, face-aware avatar cropping, and six-platform social URL normalization.
Image Creation Service
Service reads approved content, selects a standalone snippet, and composites it onto one of twelve custom-designed templates. Outputs to media library for HITL review.
Social Media Generation
Plugin integrated into content production pipeline. Social text generation with editing capability. Publishes to networks in parallel with content as the last step in the pipeline.
Collections
A custom WordPress taxonomy for curated reading. Three pieces per collection, reusable across the site, no AI in the curation primitive — by deliberate choice.
Mood-Based Discovery
A RAG-powered semantic search that finds content by mood and theme rather than keyword. Every classification is human-reviewed before indexing. Runtime queries pass through two safety layers, and conversations aren’t stored.
Interaction design across form factors
Dual-Screen Android Phone
System-level interaction framework. Four application models, three custom gestures, five core apps and four patents awarded.
Database Management & Monitoring
Enterprise platform design that redesigned a mainframe database administration tool without alienating the experts who built careers on the old paradigm. Two user populations, one system, four pillars, and a knowledge-capture system that addressed a workforce-succession crisis.
Running App for Smartwatch
Constraint-respecting design for a specialized audience. Hard keys for high-stakes mid-run actions, touch for moments of transition, four swipe-navigable views the runner customizes.