About me

For fun

Growing up with Hypercard in school, and playing games like Myst, inspired me to become an interactive designer before I even knew what that meant. As soon as my parents got the family online, I started building web pages, having fun posting about things I enjoyed.

I soon joined a group of people who built movie fan sites. They were part of a team working on a website called Cinemenium, named after the, then upcoming turn of the century. It was a unique concept at the time, and stood out for the level of quality that we were able to design and produce its content.

Professionally

From these fan sites, I got my first job where I continued to hone my web design skills, focusing on user-friendly design best practices and following web standards for coding. Doing both design and code helped me gain a better understanding of the web browser and made my design work more functional and accessible.

I further progressed on overall user experience design and the flow of how users interacted with a website. Along the way I leaned into interface design as more and more websites began to offer e-commerce and interactive functionality, and computer software was turning into web apps.

Today

This has all lead me to focus on UI/UX design web design. I even co-founded a web app startup that allows me to do both, Blocks Edit. It's a tool for building on the web that I lead product design efforts on.