Trellis was in a phase where motion didn’t yet have a clear voice as part of the brand or a system-level implementation model, making it difficult for teams to apply motion consistently across the product. Implementing new design system foundations was especially challenging because Trellis had been built over 10+ years without tokens or a scalable framework.

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I started approaching motion as a foundational part of Trellis, defining not only how it should function within the system, but also how it could express the brand’s personality through product interactions. My contributions span component-level motion guidance, reusable patterns for AI loading, system loading, celebration, and success moments, as well as prototypes that help teams understand, align on, and implement motion more consistently across a system that influences 200+ teams and surfaces.