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Surfing
Surfing keeps me comfortable with imperfect conditions and constant adjustment. It is a useful reminder that timing and feel matter as much as planning.
is a product designer at the intersection of UX, systems, and .
Currently pursuing an M.S. in HCI from UC Santa Cruz with a focus on human-AI collaboration.
Play
What keeps me curious outside the studio.
Movement, water, and a little chaos keep my creative energy up. The same instincts that help me design systems also show up in how I reset, recharge, and stay playful.
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Working Out
Training gives me structure and momentum. I like activities where consistency compounds and small improvements become visible over time.
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Pokemon
Pokemon is still one of my favorite kinds of play: strategic, a little nostalgic, and full of systems to explore, tune, and obsess over.
An MS HCI student, trying to figure out my life while using design to improve people's lives (or at least make one hard day a little easier).
My Design Journey
I’ve always been creative. I did fine art for twelve years, starting at six years old and ending high school with two six-foot traditional Chinese watercolor paintings. Then I got to college, tried biology research, then computer science research, and kept realizing that being good at something is not the same as loving it.
I did not really find that sense of direction until the end of college, when I found UX design in 2024. My first design project, Flair, made everything click. It gave me a way to return to creativity while keeping the parts of tech I actually enjoyed, and since then I’ve found myself naturally bridging design and development.
Outside of design, I’m usually working out, adventuring outdors, or playing Pokemon.
My Philosophy
I want to make people’s lives better. And if not better in some huge way, then at least a little easier, clearer, or less frustrating for a day.
That is what draws me to the work I do. At UCSC Blueprint, I’ve designed for a nonprofit. At Nvidia, I’ve explored ways to speed up developer UX testing. Different projects, same goal: use design to help people more directly.
I also believe that anyone can do design, given the right support and education. That belief shows up in the way I teach as a TA for UCSC’s UX Design course and an Adobe Creative Cloud class, and in the way I think about accessibility through my work as a Digital Accessibility Assistant.
I’m currently exploring:
How AI can make everyday life easier, and what it looks like to design new AI interactions and product patterns that do not exist yet.
