Experiments in Experience

Who I Am



I am a research-driven designer with a passion for user psychology. ✨ I help companies get into the mind of the user.

🧠 Ten years of cognition research has honed my extensive problem-solving toolkit.

  • My post-graduate research on Audience Design captured mental models (schemas) for diverse user journeys from novice to expert.
    My expertise lies in fusing research, design, psychology and a collaborative spirit.

Problems are better solved together and I thrive on collaboration. Let’s jam!

 
 
 

What I Do

At the beach in southern CA
  • Dive deep to find answers

When faced with a problem, I will stop at nothing to gain a deeper understanding of it. I seek the root cause as the best starting point.

  • Collaborate creatively

Creative problem solving takes creative thinking. In addition to my research skills, decades of collaboration as a performing arts professional has honed my abilities to think on the spot— together.

  • Bridge communities and disciplines

I am on a quest for knowledge and driven to share it across boundaries.

Sharing knowledge is my passion. In 2022, I helped create a local UX meetup group that meets weekly, as well co-founded an online UXR community to meet the need for UX awareness in a safe space for newcomers.

Connecting newcomers to experiences they had never conceived of has always brought a special kind of joy. My heart has a soft spot for the novice experience in all areas of life—ask me sometime about my most motivated student (an 82-year-old retired physics professor starting music for the first time!).