I started my UX journey in 2018 as a way to combine my passion for design, organization and creative problem-solving. Like many others UX professionals, my path to the field was less than conventional: after completing my bachelor’s degree in Modern & Classical Languages, I moved to Nashville to pursue a career in music while working as a photographer and bike messenger. After finding my way into tech via software sales at a startup, I discovered UX and became interested enough to enroll in and graduate from an immersive UX program at General Assembly.
Combining my eclectic pre-UX experiences with my innate desire to create and organize systems allows me to bring a unique perspective to the problems I get to solve as a designer. In addition to satisfying that core interest, I very much enjoy the fact that my day-to-day can be so varied: whether I’m designing a feature, bridging a gap between a stakeholder, product manager and developer, talking to users, consulting with a UX manager about their team’s structure / reporting model, working on a strategic approach, or any number of other tasks that fall under the UX umbrella, I thrive in environments that require me to form something concrete from an amorphous collection of needs and requirements.
Outside of work, my interests are constantly being piqued by something new. My standby hobbies will always be photography, woodworking, watching movies and working on anything mechanical. More fleeting interests as of late are learning about landscaping and working on my yard, creating a home server to stream my music & movie collection from anywhere and planning an upcoming trip to Spain!
Illustration from absurd.design