My love for design spawned from the art lessons I was forced to take on Saturday mornings as a kid. What at first felt like a chore quickly turned into a passion and till this day, I thank my parents for forcing me to give up watching morning cartoons to learn how to draw them instead.

Fast forwarding to my formative years, my love for design and art grew. Although art wasn’t a central focus of my studies, I continued the passion with doodles on class notes, which inadvertently helped me retain the information better. One use case study of this was when I sketched out an image of a brain for my AP Psychology class with annotations. I did this for my own visual learning purposes, but it was done so well that my teacher asked if she could have a copy of for future classes. Little did we both know that this class was a key story in the plot that further sparked my curiosity of user experience and consumer psychology.