I’ve always been a very visually oriented person, having always worked on some visual craft or media. Whether it’s photography, drawing, painting, video editing, cable TV production, filmmaking, and more recently, pottery, the visual arts are my passion. I thrive in them.
But I also have a technical side to me, which motivated me to learn full stack web development coding. Although I enjoyed various aspects of coding, particularly front-end development, I found myself gravitating to the design aspects of web development and understanding the reasons behind the designs and the product. Therefore, I decided to pursue UX/UI design.
As a product designer, I bring creative visual skills and a sense of visual aesthetics as well as problem-solving skills from my MBA marketing background. Equally important, I also bring empathy skills that I have honed as an online ESL teacher to young Asian students.
Aside from the visual designing and problem solving, I love interacting with people, particularly while engaging people in research interviews. Understanding people and their multiplicity of opinions and viewpoints, and then translating them to UX have added a dynamic layer that makes the field even more interesting to me.
Looking ahead, I hope to be continually leveraging my strengths in offering value to an organization while expanding my skillset and embracing wherever this rapidly changing field of UX takes me.
