I'm a Seattle based product designer with interior architecture roots.
Over the last 2 years, I've designed experiences, digital products, and services for enterprises to startups, that improve wellness and work. I've designed experiences for B2C e-commerce, grocery retail, and health care products.
A little more about my background & work
I began my formal career in interior architecture at CEPT & UC DAAP, embedding myself in the practice of spatial and systems design. However, I quickly identified the gap in my design process that lacked research on users and market needs. I realized I was designing with a fixed mindset. My curiosity to learn about the user, technology and design processes that can help create human-centered products has been my driving force to pursue Design Management at SCAD.
Designing physical spaces has taught me to balance experiential quality with aesthetics while with design management I have developed a strong sense of empathy and strategy to solve complex problems. As a product designer, I get to do it all - shaping digital products at the intersection of usability and aesthetics to create meaningful experiences. I'm the happiest working for a diversity of perspectives and solving difficult human problems through design.
I enjoy working on & can help the team with
User/Design
Research
To learn what our users & customers want; I conduct qualitative research to deeply understand the needs and blend quantitative data to bring a strong point and accurately frame the problem. I have the skill to analyze and synthesis user needs to uncover key insights.
Design
Strategy
Combine key insights with business goals to create value propositions. Converting the research into relevant products, services, spaces, and business strategies.
Design Sprints
Facilitation
Guiding the team to design and test solutions for critical challenges in building products and services using frameworks within one week.
Workshop
Facilitation
When a Design Sprint isn’t suitable, a design thinking workshop helps. I l love designing and conducting workshops for clients to solve problems and gain insights. Click here to view one of my toolkit design to conduct a collaborative workshop.
User Experience
Design
Design and deliver the best possible user experience for products and services to your users, meet business needs that are consistent, usable, and ultimately desirable. To learn more about how I arrive at the final best possible solution for a complex problem, take a look through the work.
Phygital
Design
Seeing the bigger, holistic nature of user experience outside the usual range of interfaces. From connected home to immersive media, and virtual reality, I enjoy creating experiences that enable natural interactions with our physical & virtual environments. Click here to look at my spatial VR project.
What do I do when I'm not solving problems
When I'm free, I may be hiking or watching a new Marvel/Disney movie, or playing board games. Some of my favorite board games are Catan, Istanbul, Azul, and Codenames. Like every other millennial, quarantine finally forced me to learn my favorite recipes, and now I spend the weekends hosting game night with home-cooked Indian food.