In my free time, I have always enjoyed painting and drawing. These artistic skills have helped me build an intuition for aesthetics and digital design, which I do frequently as a Computer Science student. They have also surprisingly helped me become better at recovering from mistakes, allowing me to erase, retrace my steps, and try again.

A project I worked on that I enjoyed was the design of an AI-mediated travel planning app. I enjoyed it because it was a project on which I collaborated with a friend, and it involved utilizing not just our technical skills of prototyping on Figma but also required thinking about our brand image/strategy. We had to develop a cohesive vision, our brand values, and corresponding material (e.g., color tile, typography hierarchy, UI components, and initial low-fidelity prototyping).

I believe in the importance of creating and maintaining a brand library. This is a tool that documents and componentizes different brand elements, including typography, color, UI elements, and value-driven images. I would ensure that we utilize this library across content and channels or create one as the first step toward a cohesive brand image.