My design principles

Knowledge is collaborative

We learn more by collaborating, pooling our experiences, and sharing our discoveries.

Stay flexible

Flexibility is collaborating with people, learning about users, and working on evolving designs. It involves work that adapts to different needs and contexts, allowing for adjustments as circumstances change. I work on projects with an open mind and curiosity about the teams I work with, the end users and audiences, and a knowing that we collectively contribute to the outcomes and states of the products.

Work towards clarity

In design, clarity is essential in creating intuitive and easy-to-navigate products that convey their purpose. It represents elegance and transparency, and its impact can make or break outcomes. Clarity is vital in the product design process, as it aligns stakeholders and facilitates a smoother transition from concept to design and development. When goals are clearly defined, teams become better aligned, resulting in more effective and efficient progress toward achieving objectives.

Lead with compassion

This is an umbrella under which all the other principles live. Compassion is about stepping outside of yourself to meet others in the middle and finding new perspectives. Attitudes such as helpfulness, receptiveness, and cooperation are encouraged when we practice compassion. Mindfulness and compassion go hand in hand with an awareness that we are designing for others, in turn, to know more about ourselves. When we see how people use the tools that we design and see their ways of navigating the world around them, we can become compassionate and understanding designers.