I am a user experience designer with roots in industrial design. As a child, I had a deep love for making things and imagined myself a sculptor following in the footsteps of Eva Hesse or Ruth Asawa. However the practical side of me, with parental prodding, chose a career in design.
I worked as an industrial designer for 7 years in Boston before deciding to head west. Along with my location change, came a career shift. I was growing restless with designing disposable objects and discovered a new life as an interaction designer. I was lucky to find a wealth of mentors at frog design who supported me through this metamorphosis. It was there that I really cut my teeth in the profession.
Time passed and I found myself looking for more. I took a 6 month fellowship as a designer for an Indian non-profit whose focus was in youth employability for drop-outs. I ended up staying a year and a half. Once the distance became too much, I returned home and found myself working in a variety of capacities, at an education start-up, as a independent contractor and then as a team member at a consulting firm and poverty-fighting foundation.
My creative approach is centered around curiosity and empathy. I seek to understand the systemic issues surrounding a problem and find ways to address them as far upstream as possible. I am extremely collaborative and believe in the value of rapid prototyping. The more iterations I can get in a project, the better it becomes.
I am driven by the need to make things that matter. If I can improve a step of a process or make someone smile, that is success. Ultimately, my goal is to create things that are so well thought out that they become invisible.