A little self introduction about myself,
I'm a designer that has the experience of walking in leather faux business shoes. I'm passionate about how things can work best for the users and strongly believe that at the core of business and design, you will find the human element.
My days in the business side of things has allowed me to see how design can align with business goals and what makes a service that users want to use, and to return to. During my university days and even dating further back, research was almost essential in every other module and the amount gets increasingly stacked as I progress up the education ladder. Yet my interest for writing, breaking down information and synthesizing them to something new and being able to communicate them makes me excited (much to the disbelief of some of my peers) to jump into the sea of academia papers if only for the fact that I'll walk away learning something new.
Writing is definitely a form of creation but I grew up a visual person who have a strong love for animation, movie cinematography, video games, signboards, vintage packaging, Japanese comics, beautiful paintings and the list goes on and on.
I love visuals as much as I love writing, both of which I love as much as wanting people to enjoy themselves in every experience (which was I chose my education route).
I never knew that I could design the experience, and there's a career that combines all of that until later in my life.
There was a path I thought I would have followed after my graduation, but when the worldwide pandemic occurred and my industry was one that got hit the hardest, I took that as an opportunity to look at what I truly wanted in life.
What was then little detours became fulfilling adventures. I focused on improving my artwork, and eventually reached commercial competency for someone with little to no artistic training. I entered the world of UX and UI, bridging what is common from Business and Research methods while absorbing knowledge on Design Thinking, Front End Development and everything in between. All the while working and expanding on case studies and finding myself currently collaborating with actual business owners to better their digital services.
My gap year was one full of learning and self discovery, leading to a new path that I can really be passionate and give my all for. Rather than a wall or a difficulty, my experience has taught me that the only way to see them is as little detours that will become adventures to enter an exciting new world of knowledge. If we can see it that way, we'll certainly come back scaling through that wall with ease.
