ABOUT ME

I make complex, intelligent systems legible.

My name is Njeri, owner of NAZO Collective. I am a UX/UI designer and healthcare operations professional with over six years of healthcare and insurance workflows, improving client experiences, and now creating AI-integrated tools at scale. I also have been an avid knitter and crocheter since I was 8 years old. Those decades of building with my hands will apply to my design process as well. Both operations are respected. Every project is the same job: taking something dense and intelligent, then making it usable.

THE MAKER STORY

Six years in healthcare account management taught me what people actually struggle with: not the technology, but the language and trust around it. That is the thread through everything I build now, from a benefits agent that explains a member’s plan in plain words to an AI-image detector that refuses to overclaim.

I work across UX, product, agentic AI, web, and healthcare tools, usually end to end: strategy, design, copy, and the build. I use AI where it is strongest, for scale, speed and the parts worth automating, and my own hands and judgment where they are, for craft, taste and the calls that should not be automated.


BACKGROUND & CERTIFICATIONS

The foundation.

NAZO Collective LLC
Independent design practice · Working remotely, worldwide
UXD Academy
Modern UX / Product Design certification · Forward-deployed AI experience design
Healthcare account management
Six years in healthcare operations, insurance benefits, and claims
Practice
UX · Product · Agentic AI · Web · Healthcare tools
Toolkit
Figma · Claude Code · Next.js · Framer Motion · Tailwind