The Artist / Designer / Composer...

Big question to ask, but this is me. In my purest form, I am an artistic soul who thrives when given a fun little challenge to keep my loud brain occupied.

In a professional sense, I am a User Experience Designer with a passion for incorporating the arts and design into STEM to create greater user experiences and provoke emotional connections between human-to-human and human-to-machine.

As a User Experience Designer I spend a lot of time observing and investigating why and how. Why do users interact with technology this way? How does anyone navigate this poorly designed website? Why won’t my code run the way I so politely asked it to? Some are harder to answer than others, but that’s the fun of the job; Finding the answers and fixing the outcomes, then asking more questions.

But, what sets me apart from others? Alongside my Bachelor of IT, I studied a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Film and Television Studies & Popular Music Technology. Through this degree, I have developed a much stronger appreciation for the creative arts and how they might influence technology. I’ve written countless film essays and spent hours dissecting film scenes. I’ve had the opportunity to compose, perform and produce music through new digital music technologies. These majors, despite possibly being considered a “waste of time” considering my interest in IT, have been greatly beneficial to how I approach my work in User Experience and Design.

I’ve always had a strong belief that life cannot thrive without the arts. It is human to create and live within an artistic world; Even if it’s hidden behind statistics and logic, artistic influence will still exist. My passion is to always let arts and STEM coexist in my life and the work I create.