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A Product Designer / Sr. User Experience Designer / Educator / Author / Mentor.
I'm living in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, working at OTIS College of Art and Design, Santa Monica College Interaction Design Program, and Art Center College of Design, and designing UX/UI curriculum and mentoring student projects. I'm focusing on sharing more of my experience as the time goes on.
I've been writing articles on Medium with UX Design Collective: The Next Largest Context I am designing and experimenting with AI coding and using libraries like Twitter bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, React, and Figma MCP to explore the possibilities of software development with students. Outside of work, I'm a dad to 2 awesome kids, Helios (7) and Ophelia (5), and when I can I get out in the surf from el porto to countyline.
I am currently tinkering with several projects that focus on advancing the field of UX design and education. If you have a project you'd like to discuss, feel free to reach out.
Human-centered design is more an ethos that requires designers to care about their users at every phase.
As UX/UI designers we understand that you have to make something to learn something. We understand our work through making.
With out user testing you are just making assumptions which is the payoff of all the hard work we do as designers.