I would never have guessed that my keenness for coloring as a careless child would’ve led to a love for design.

As a kid, drawing energized me; I tried my hand at everything from fashion design to cartooning to mandalas to interior design and tried charcoal, colored pencil, and paint. Eventually, I assumed a more grounded style that honored my interests, where I drew food and landscapes and other things that I love. As I grew, as did my interest in technology, I messed around on my brother’s humble Canon Powershot and discovered how much I value the process of capturing, viewing, and impacting the world in a way that goes further than pen and paper – photography was the bridge for me into the digital world.

I started Seton Hall University as a business major, as in my mind, my hobbies were just my hobbies, and my journey to figure out my career was going to be its own beast. Marketing interested me, but quickly I felt the creative spark I had was knocking at my soul, begging me to let it out. A few existential crises and a (moderately-sized) handful of tears later, everything came together - I reevaluated my options and realized that graphic design and advertising was made for me. It would satiate all sides of me: I could engage my creative eye, technological proficiency, curiosity about the world, and business-oriented mind.

Design, I soon found, goes hand in hand with psychology, another longstanding passion of mine, allowing me to create the highest quality digital experiences using my knowledge of the way people think – this transitioned me perfectly into the UX side of things.

Immediately, I fell in love with design and wondered how I hadn’t found it sooner.