I love to cook (and feed people I care about), eat, snowboard, hike, listen to music, and explore San Francisco and northern California.
I realized I wanted to be a designer when I was working in neuroscience lab developing experiments in MATLAB and testing them by recording brain waves. At some point, it became clear the process of repeatedly building, testing, and improving these experiments was an iterative design process. I was in fact practicing user experience design - in a very specific context, but UX design nonetheless.
I took a unique path to becoming a designer, and I think that's one of my strengths. Wherever I can, I like to leverage my neuroscience days to incorporate findings from scientific papers into my design work. I get a lot of satisfaction out of using facts about the mind to craft good experiences for people.
