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UX Designer @ Gartner

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About Me

Product Designer with a trained eye for what actually works — and the track record to back it up: one recently shipped product drove a 52% YoY increase in engagement. Increasingly focused on building the systems behind design that scales, not just the screens. ────────── • I've looked at enough good and bad design to spot the difference fast: in a product, a flow, or a system. That instinct started early; I've spent years training it sharper, the same patient way anyone trains a model: examples, correction, repeat. In the AI era, anyone can generate design work, but judgment like that is rare. • Relentlessly curious about what's underneath a good outcome: the mechanics, the data, the decision that quietly made it work. I don't just admire it from the front end; I go find out, and let it reshape how I work and live. • Turn dry, unglamorous business requirements into design that converts: prototyping fast, testing early, cutting anything that doesn't earn its place. One example: a feature from early discovery work drove a 52% YoY increase in engagement. That's the bar: not just a clean interface, a measurable result. • None of this happens alone. In practice: co-defining success metrics and hypotheses with product partners, pressure-testing ideas with engineering and research, and explaining the reasoning clearly enough that non-technical stakeholders can champion it too. I'd rather make the people around me sharper than just make my own screens shine — including other designers I mentor along the way. These days, I think the real work isn't designing one screen; it's designing the system underneath it: the framework and patterns that let a team ship good work consistently, and that other teams can pick up and reuse instead of starting from zero. That's the question I ask on every project now: not just "does this work," but "does this scale beyond me." And that's where I want to keep growing. Always learning — happy to compare notes.

My Skills

  • Graphic Design
  • Product Design
  • User Experience
  • User Interface

My Career

  • UX DesignerGartnerNovember 2022
    Current
  • UX DesignerAscent OutdoorsMarch 2022 - May 2022
  • UX DesignerEZVIZ IncSeptember 2021 - November 2021
  • UX DesignerMeasurecareMay 2021 - August 2021

My Education

  • UNSWMaster of Digital Media, Digital Arts
  • Macquarie UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Communication and Media Studies
  • d.MBACertificateGraduated November 2022

My Details

Country

  • United States

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • Chinese

Years of Experience

  • 5-10 years

Timezone

  • Eastern Standard Time

Member Since

  • April 7, 2021