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Nice to meet you, I’m Michelle!
I’m a UX designer.
My mission in life is to design experiences that help people understand, trust, and feel a little less overwhelmed by the technology in front of them.
My path wasn’t linear. I started as a Marketing major at San Diego State University before completing a nine-month coding bootcamp and working as a developer, chasing the technical side of things that I used to market.
Along the way, I taught myself the basics such as Figma and some early UI fundamentals in whatever spare time I could find. But the real foundation such as design fundamentals, the double-diamond method, and human-centered practices like product design, UI/UX, research, and testing came from my coursework in UC Irvine’s Human-Computer Interaction & Design Master’s Program.
I’m still pushing myself past what I already know too, by picking up more graphic design skills through Coursera whenever I can find the time.
Looking ahead, I’m designing at the intersection of business, technology, and people. Building experiences that feel intuitive, honest, and genuinely useful,
