My path into UX started with a very short internship observing people play games (I know this sounds absurd but it's true). Watching how differently everyone interpreted the most basic interactions was my first real glimpse into how fascinating human perception is.

This stayed as an afterthought because at that point my focus was on building a career in art while keeping my computer science engineering degree aside. Around this time, my friend approached me for some research work on his project, and that got me into the product atmosphere. I slowly started learning design and executing it. With them I entered a hackathon together which connected with some recruiters, and that's how I landed a UX designer job (SaaS that too!) with zero formal training.

From then on, I've worked on everything from well-architected products to ones that were held together with duct tape, and I've also poured months into projects that never saw daylight because in this large system there are so many players that control the process. It's painful when things don't ship, but when they do? Totally worth it.

I was going through my designs and only recently realized that somehow they all gravitate toward blues and greens, which makes sense given how fascinated I am by nature and skies. You'll mostly find me around trees or tending to my plants (currently trying to fight root rot).

As someone who used to go down every rabbit hole, I've finally learned when to stop digging. And for someone who obsesses over steps and structures, accepting that design can't always be that systematic was genuinely painful for my brain to process. But it does now, and I'm excited about that.

My only wish is that everything I build ages as gracefully as Helen Mirren.