About me
I'm a designer with roots in healthcare and hospitality, and foundations in UI/UX and speculative design. My focus is designing experiences that balance usability with business goals, always with an eye on the systems underneath the interface.
During my time in healthcare and hospitality, and I noticed the same points of friction show up again and again, even as the people involved changed. It became clear the problem wasn't the people. It was the systems they depended on. Designing better systems is what drew me into this work, and that instinct is still what shapes how I think about interfaces today.
As products get more responsive to individual needs, generative and context-aware experiences that adapt rather than stay fixed, the gap between what a system does and what people understand becomes the real design problem. Closing that gap and making adaptive systems still feel intuitive is the work I'm most excited about.
During my time in healthcare and hospitality, and I noticed the same points of friction show up again and again, even as the people involved changed. It became clear the problem wasn't the people. It was the systems they depended on. Designing better systems is what drew me into this work, and that instinct is still what shapes how I think about interfaces today.
As products get more responsive to individual needs, generative and context-aware experiences that adapt rather than stay fixed, the gap between what a system does and what people understand becomes the real design problem. Closing that gap and making adaptive systems still feel intuitive is the work I'm most excited about.
EDUCATION
Speculative design
Bachelors Degree - UCSD
UI/UX design
Certification - Career Foundry
About me
I'm a designer with roots in healthcare and hospitality, and an education in UX and speculative speculative design. Disciplines that look different on paper but share the same fault line: what happens when a system doesn't account for the person using it. Those early roles sharpened an instinct. But the problems I wanted to solve couldn't be fixed one shift at a time.
Speculative design trained me to think about implications before they become problems. That lens feels especially relevant now, as software becomes more personalized.
That shapes my focus now. I work at the intersection of usability and change, specifically how people relate to content, information, and each other as the context around them shifts. In practice, that means caring about workflows: not just whether something works, but whether it changes how someone works.
When there's a gap between what a system does and what a person understands, the analytical part of me wants to know why. The designer part wants to fix it.
Speculative design trained me to think about implications before they become problems. That lens feels especially relevant now, as software becomes more personalized.
That shapes my focus now. I work at the intersection of usability and change, specifically how people relate to content, information, and each other as the context around them shifts. In practice, that means caring about workflows: not just whether something works, but whether it changes how someone works.
When there's a gap between what a system does and what a person understands, the analytical part of me wants to know why. The designer part wants to fix it.
EDUCATION
Speculative design
Bachelors Degree - UCSD
UI/UX design
Certification - Career Foundry