I am originally from Toronto 🇨🇦, but moved to Seattle 🇺🇸 for work.
Toronto - This is the Toronto skyline when Lake Ontario is frozen.
Seattle - This is Mount Rainer, it’s an active volcano and the highest mountain in Washington State.
I’ve always been interested in inventing, building, and collecting things ever since I was a kid. I was sure that meant I was supposed to be an engineer when I grew up, but then I found out about Industrial Design from a family friend, which aligned more with my interests. It allowed me to get a holistic perspective on designing products. Throughout school, I developed a passion for creating experiences that blended technology and physical products together.
Midway through school, I was applying to internships and accidentally fell into the UX field. I was accepted as a UX design intern at Autodesk. They were interested in my application because of the process I go through when solving problems, despite me having no UX experience. I completed a few other UX internships, and now I am a full-time UX designer.
UX/UI design allows me to combine my interest in creating products and my love for technology while solving problems for people to improve their lives.
I enrolled in the UX/UI Bootcamp. I had never formally learned interface design skills through my school. I’ve learned mainly through reading books, watching videos on YouTube, and hands-on learning throughout my internships. After working in the field for about a year, I was looking for ways to continue learning, grow, and help me build my confidence as a designer. One of my friends had taken the Memorisely UX/UI Bootcamp before and highly recommend it to me, so I enrolled in the next available bootcamp.
It’s such a great experience! The use of cloud apps like Notion and Figma makes it so easy to follow along and stay on track. It’s also such a unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from people from such diverse backgrounds.
I really enjoy the live classes! Zander brings so much energy and knowledge to each class. The lessons are all interactive, so you get to practice the skills you learn in class, and you’re able to get feedback, ask questions, and work with your classmates.
I also love working on a case study that follows the timeline and skills learned in the classes throughout the course. So you get to apply the knowledge and skills learned to a real case study to practice what you’ve learned.
It’s easy to read about tools and methods but without applying them myself, I find it is hard to transfer them into my design work. There are also so many different resources to learn from it’s hard to know where to start or the foundational principles to build off.
The class for me was at 9 am. So I’d typically grab my coffee and start my day off with class. After class, I hop over to my work laptop and work the day away.
I’ve been working from home for the past year and a half, so my workspace is mainly composed of computers, to do lists, books, and stickies on my wall.
The Casper Glow light.
It's not just a lamp. It changes the way you naturally interact with a lamp, but in an intuitive way. Instead of a button to turn a light on/off, you flip the Glow Light over to turn it on or off. You're able to dim the light by rotating it on a surface. There is no permanent upright position to the lamp. The glow light is accompanied by an app where you can also turn it on or off and set a wake-up or sleep time, so it acts as a sunlight lamp and helps cue your body that it's time for bed. And, of course, the sleek and elegant design blends into any space.
Anything lofi normally that’s easy to jam to and keeps me in a rhythm while designing.
