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Why am I a product designer?

Design lives between the known and unknown, equally art and science. Design is the balance between helping users achieve their goals and wowing them with the magic of an effortless schema. As a designer I know that the simple moments we strive to achieve for our user, for the people on the receiving end, are much more effortful than we lead our users to believe.  Simplicity is the highest goal, and a rigorous design process provides the reliability for an unembellished solution. Listening to the voice of users is the best place to begin. My design process is the science behind my art, informed by IDEO's design thinking methodology.

At age 10 I knew I wanted to be an architect and design exterior spaces for people to enjoy and live in. 10 years later I discovered the ability to design spaces online during my Applied Computing and Computer Programming coursework at Tulane University. At that time I fell in love with ability of online spaces to transport people in time and space to wherever they wanted to go. I became passionate about web-enabled products that provided inclusivity and accessibility to information that had before been buried by the exterior world. Technology has the ability to unlock knowledge for populations who have previously been unable to attain it and shed light on accommodating services that had before been shadowed by physical space. 

Now we stand at the edge of the next frontier as designers. The day has come when our work merges both physical and digital spaces. I look forward to the day that UX design thrives without a computer screen as technological ergonomics float in and out of our lives seamlessly. This will be the design challenge of the next 50 years. I happily welcome that endeavor.