About Me

Born and raised in North Dakota, I have spent over half of my life in New York City. My goal is to help users have more efficient and effective experiences with their products, ultimately saving time and mental capacity for those things in life that matter the most.

Why UX Design?

I love helping people and I love solving puzzles; I’m also incredibly creative. I enjoy taking things apart and putting them back together, or even making them from scratch (as you’ll see from my cookies below). I genuinely enjoy connecting with people and learning from their experiences, empathizing with their frustrations, and helping them find creative solutions. I used these skills to build a very successful career in retail sales, training, and eventually management. COVID changed the world and I saw it as an opportunity to help people at a different scale. When I discovered the field of UX Design, I felt I had finally found where I belong.

Who am I?

Design has always been a part of my life. It was only once I started my coursework with Designlabs that I remembered the challenge of laying out our high school yearbook (I was the chief during my Junior and Senior years) or the joy of coding and creating websites during computer sciences class. I realized these skills had served me well when creating the Multisport email template for Front Runners New York when I was on the Board of Directors and worked to restructure and rebrand the committee to increase participation (yes, I’m one of those crazy endurance athletes-- and you can see more about that below). I also used my skills to become one of the top Custom Closet Designers when I was a Sales Person at The Container Store—and I’m still the person people call when they need to rethink how to use their space. My focus on detail may have led me to become the Manhattan Lead Visual Manager, but at home, I use my eye for design to create and bake elaborate Christmas cookies every year. I think that gives a good view of who I am: creative, full of ingenuity, good with people, unafraid to use my intuition, and eager to increase my own knowledge.