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Car design was a childhood passion.
Car design was a childhood passion.
My love of cars started with a birthday gift from my uncle: a Motor Trend magazine subscription. I studied every issue, eventually subscribing to multiple car magazines at once and absorbing every spec and detail I could find. It became tradition ever year for my dad and I to spend an entire day at the Charlotte Auto Show inspecting each car and collecting every brochure.
My love of cars started with a birthday gift from my uncle: a Motor Trend magazine subscription. I studied every issue, eventually subscribing to multiple car magazines at once and absorbing every spec and detail I could find. It became tradition ever year for my dad and I to spend an entire day at the Charlotte Auto Show inspecting each car and collecting every brochure.
I studied mechanical engineering.
I studied mechanical engineering.
While studying mechanical engineering at NC State and completing internships at Lockheed Martin, I discovered that my strongest interests emerged in the industrial design electives I took outside my primary coursework. Having long aspired to study automotive design at ArtCenter and encouraged by a professor who had graduated from the program, I decided to apply.
While studying mechanical engineering at NC State and completing internships at Lockheed Martin, I discovered that my strongest interests emerged in the industrial design electives I took outside my primary coursework. Having long aspired to study automotive design at ArtCenter and encouraged by a professor who had graduated from the program, I decided to apply.
I explored transportation design.
I explored transportation design.
I started out studying transportation design, imagining it would fulfill my childhood dream of designing cars. While I valued the craft, I found that the work was surprisingly focused more on form, fashion, and established traditions than on deeply understanding users and solving real problems. I craved a discipline that felt modern and grounded in human behavior.
I started out studying transportation design, imagining it would fulfill my childhood dream of designing cars. While I valued the craft, I found that the work was surprisingly focused more on form, fashion, and established traditions than on deeply understanding users and solving real problems. I craved a discipline that felt modern and grounded in human behavior.
I earned my degree in interaction design.
I earned my degree in interaction design.
It was during an internship at Nissan, where I sought out interface-focused work, that interaction design fully clicked for me. I realized these were the problems I wanted to solve and adjusted my path. I joined the first ever class of ArtCenter’s Interaction Design program and was a pioneer of the degree there. With a curriculum still in its early stages, I leaned heavily on the experiences of my internships at Nest, Facebook, and Apple to build my own independent, multi-disciplinary curriculum and ensure I’d be a full-stack product designer.
It was during an internship at Nissan, where I sought out interface-focused work, that interaction design fully clicked for me. I realized these were the problems I wanted to solve and adjusted my path. I joined the first ever class of ArtCenter’s Interaction Design program and was a pioneer of the degree there. With a curriculum still in its early stages, I leaned heavily on the experiences of my internships at Nest, Facebook, and Apple to build my own independent, multi-disciplinary curriculum and ensure I’d be a full-stack product designer.
I've been working at Apple since 2017.
I've been working at Apple since 2017.
I’m currently an HI designer for Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform in Apple's Creator Studio app suite. I design across multiple platforms including iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, VisionOS, and our iCloud web platform.
I’m currently an HI designer for Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform in Apple's Creator Studio app suite. I design across multiple platforms including iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, VisionOS, and our iCloud web platform.