Rachel Merriman

Rachel Merriman

A designer deeply interested in the relationship between ideas, the ways they take shape, and the human experiences they become. Whether I’m working with digital systems or clay, the process of exploration and refinement is as important to me as what I create.

Customer Success Center homepage after the redesign

Customer Success Center Redesign

Customers arrived with a question and had to navigate a growing ecosystem to answer it. I reshaped the information architecture around what they came to do.

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Callout, table and code block components as they appear in the Customer Success Center

Customer Success Center Design System

One platform had started to feel like several. A shared foundation of tokens, components, and a custom illustration system gave the CSC one voice again.

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Partner audiences mapped to the Partner Portal information architecture

Partner Portal Redesign

Long tables of links became layered pathways and a searchable catalog, built for both the partner returning for one file and the partner asking where to start.

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Professional Services landing page after the redesign

Professional Services Experience Redesign

A dozen service names, overlapping offers, and no way to compare them. I reorganized the portfolio around the moments customers recognized in their own work.

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Glaze log with a controlled-vocabulary dropdown open

East Side Pot Shop Rainbow Factory

A shared knowledge system for a community ceramics studio, so members stop repeating each other's glaze tests and start building a collective archive.

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From the studio

Ceramics and UX design have become deeply connected parts of my creative practice. Moving between them continually shifts my perspective, and I’ve found that both are grounded in curiosity, iteration, and thoughtful problem-solving.

Whether I’m working with the physical properties of clay or the needs of the people I’m designing for, each practice asks me to work within constraints, explore the relationship between form and function, and use those limitations as opportunities to create something intentional and meaningful.

Ceramic sculpture with leather
Ceramic cup with quilt block pattern
Studio flat lay of ceramic works