Here are some of my favorite previous projects:

Background & Experience
From an educational background in architecture and design, I started visualizing architectural experiences with 3D animation, then explored user interaction in three-dimensional virtual space. Moved on to software development and designing user interfaces for small, medium, and enterprise businesses, B2C, and B2B applications in marketing and information technology teams.

Design Philosophy
As a designer I'm driven by the possibility of making things better, and creating experiences and things for people that bring competitive advantages to a business.​ I'm keen on ​lean startup, agile methods, and ​design thinking frameworks, and passionate about disruptive innovations and solving old problems with new thinking.

Personal Touch
Outside of design, I practice hobbies like hiking in nature, meditation, sculpting, and water sports. I'm also interested in learning languages, parenting, philosophy, teaching, and coaching.

Skills Summary
As a designer, the top qualities I cultivate are empathy and active listening. This enables me to understand users and anticipate their emotions and behaviors.

My core design skills include user research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, usability testing, UX writing, accessibility, collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking.

I can communicate effectively with developers, having solid understanding of front-end development and advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Approach
I favor collaboration when solving design problems. Ideally, before crafting any proposal, I will facilitate a collaborative working session, to align stakeholders and team members on the problems that we need to solve. This helps surface assumptions early and openly, and guides the team to work together effectively to achieve common objectives.
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​I like to follow lean startup methods to launch products and services that meet market demands more effectively. This way of thinking helps minimize waste and risk, by rapidly iterating based on customer feedback, and using experiments and data to test hypotheses about what customers want or need, rather than relying on assumptions or intuition.
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​Another pillar in my process are agile methods, which emphasize flexibility, collaboration, customer-centricity, and iterative progress. In similar fashion to other frameworks I favor, they involve customers throughout the process to align the product with their needs. These methods help produce higher-quality products due to continuous testing and feedback, as well as better alignment between business goals and customer needs.
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​I'm also very interested in running design sprints, to help cross-functional teams solve complex problems and create innovative solutions rapidly. This type of sprint combines design thinking, business strategy, and user-centered design to validate ideas and develop prototypes that can be tested, to go from understanding the problem and the business goals to a prototype tested by real users, in 5 days or less. This allows a team to innovate efficiently, while minimizing risks.

Other Tools & Techniques
Essential elements in my design tool belt include: