Design Background

Key Experiences that Shaped Me

A foundation was built from fine art courses, learning composition methods, experimenting with different mediums and developing a particular style and creative process. Being introduced to Photoshop from a friend propelled my desire to do “digital” graphics at that time – messy collages and vector drawings.

I was taught the importance of knowing your audience and stating the problem. Courses in the ID stream emphasized teamwork and focused on concept design, iteration processes, research and development, implementation, and proposal presentation. I learned that Interaction Design goes beyond just web graphics and that our role as Interaction Designers are to use meaningful, creative means to facilitate interaction between real people with real needs.

I was exposed to a different culture through ItaliaDesign. I learned that history and time plays a part in the quality of design and embraced doing design work passionately from the experience and time spent with architects and industrial designers who devoted their whole lives to their work. I also embraced siestas.

Developed a large network of individuals to connect and work with to ensure delivery of the best solution for the client. Worked with realistic deadlines, constraints and accommodated to client feedback.

EQQY provided me opportunities to develop client relations, understand their needs, and lead the creative development of internal and client projects from start to finish. I also worked closely with developers to learn their requirements, system limitations, expectations from designers, and work process. My role enabled me to move away from graphic/design duties and into administration and management-related responsibilities.