The hardest part of design is knowing when to stop — If you haven’t worked on too many projects, it can be easy to treat your work like a new born baby. You want to protect it, and make it look amazing. The problem with over managing your work is that it could lead to over refinement or the fear of…

Everyone wants a good project to be hired — When creating your portfolio, you might think: what idea is valuable for a school or side project? There is a misconception that certain ideas will result in great projects. …

Personal tips and tricks that have worked for my Google and Facebook interviews — I like to think of a portfolio presentation as a pitch deck that I’m presenting to investors, except I replace investors with interviewers. With a good pitch deck, they are have a clear narrative, problem and user base, show how they got to where they are through their process and…

What they look like and how to make them while balancing different stakeholder’s wants and needs — Q: I’d love to learn about the different kinds of trade-offs you make as a designer. I think that would be really helpful because I haven’t had much experience navigating a larger organization and balancing different stakeholders and coworkers. Have you ever presented in a group project, saying that your…

My takeaways as a featured speaker at WiUX Conference 2019 and as a junior designer at Google — A few weeks ago, I spoke at WiUX’s (Women in UX) 5th Annual Design Conference, which aims to empower and connect women of all experiences, and aid their endeavors in User Experience and related fields. …

As you start out your new job, one of the first things you do for yourself and with your manager is map out goals or milestones you hope to achieve. This could be as vague as completing your first project or as specific as getting promoted by the next year. …

Published with Inside Design in 2019 Imposter syndrome seems to be a trendy term I see these days and it’s something that I go back and forth in-between, especially when I encounter new situations. I feel paralyzed but have been counteracting it with excitement and a sense of purpose and…

In most tech companies, we are measured based on the amount of impact we make in a way that is tangible. This is often based on how many products we ship, but not necessarily on the strategy or execution of it. This could be the result of a few things…

In meetings, I am not the most naturally well-spoken person. It takes a while to think of what I want to say and I get self conscious for speaking up because I’ve had experiences where I felt like what I said was not getting heard, or I would get interrupted…