Julia “Jewels” Freedman
builds things people use.

RePromptr is a patent-pending Chrome extension that gives users the instincts of a seasoned prompt engineer. The idea came from watching friends and classmates shut their laptops on AI tools mid-task — not for lack of ideas, but because the interface gave them no way to turn a rough thought into an effective prompt.

I set the direction, designed and coded the interface, and led the patent filing process directly with a patent attorney — while leading a 3-person team across product and development through beta release. As the product grew, I kept coming back to one belief: uneven access to prompting skill quietly widens the gap between people who get real value from AI and people who don't. RePromptr embeds that guidance into the interface itself, so users keep agency and confidence over how they work with AI.

SoleSafe was a universal shoe cover that prevented the degradation of athletic shoe soles — a response to the hundreds of millions of athletic shoes discarded every year. As product designer, I focused on a solution athletes would actually wear: layered neoprene, a nylon-spandex blend, and a silicone sole, tuned across dozens of hand-sewn prototypes for durability, washability, and fit.

I designed and 3D printed a CAD model of an athletic cleat to use as a construction form, then tested SoleSafe with athletes across sports and refined it against real wear. The product has since won first place among 47 teams at NFTE Innovate South Florida, advanced in the Diamond Challenge Northeast out of 2,000 teams from 77 countries, and been pitched directly to executives and ownership at the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool FC, and the New York Jets.

Dignity in Design restores independence through thoughtfully engineered products for elderly and disabled individuals — the everyday tasks most people never think twice about: cutting vegetables, trimming nails, opening doors.

MedBand, a medical ID bracelet with an embedded NFC chip, began after my grandmother fainted while traveling abroad, where language barriers and an unfamiliar healthcare system complicated getting her help. I designed the chip into a wearable charm rather than a clinical device, storing medication lists and EKG records for first responders — with the system structured so only the wearer can edit their own records, avoiding HIPAA issues. SafeSnip, a nail clipper with a soldered metal stabilizer, prevents users with tremors or limited mobility from clipping themselves, shaped by hammering metal onto a 3D-printed mold of the average finger slope.