About Me

I enjoy designing things I’m passionate about, like figure skating or making learning design accessible to those entering the field. I’ll code if I need to, but I prefer to focus on the design side of things. Learning to code, however, has made me a better designer. I learned how to use Astro during the process of coding this portfolio and I love it because the component structure is so similar to Figma.

Aside from design, you'll find me at the ice rink, training calisthenics, making TikTok videos, or knitting something for my Shih Tzu, Princess. I started figure skating as an adult 4 years ago and enjoy making progress videos of my skating. Calisthenics helps improve my strength, balance, and flexibility to improve my skating performance.

Tools I Use

Figma for wireframing and prototyping

Photoshop for image editing, design, and visual manipulation

Dovetail for analyzing user interviews and usability test data

Jira for Sprint planning and assigning coding tasks to devs

MS Word for writing usability test plans and keeping track of research

Figma to schedule user interviews and usability tests

GitHub for storing coding projects.

Vercel for hosting this portfolio.

VS Code for writing, editing, and debugging code

Postman to test API calls and make sure they work

Zoom to record user-interviews and usabilityt tests

Slack to communicate with the people I collaborate with

MS Teams used this at Fidelity Investments for meetings and co-worker chats.