What started as a love of making art gradually grew into a curiosity about design more broadly. As I experimented with graphic design, I became interested not only in how something looked, but in how it could communicate, function, and shape an experience. In college, that curiosity led me to explore human-centered and UX design through Design for America and an internship at IBM. I began learning how to understand people’s needs, translate those insights into ideas, and test different ways of solving a problem. It opened my eyes to another side of creativity—using design not just to make things, but to make things work better for the people using them. Below is a sample of those projects.