I'm endlessly curious about how things work. When something catches my interest, I happily disappear down the rabbit hole until I understand it inside and out.
Product design is the perfect home for that curiosity. I get to study human behaviour, pull apart messy problems, and shape them into experiences that feel effortless. It's also the rare job that lets me be an artist and an engineer of sorts at the same time.
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My curiosity doesn't stay in the design file. On every project, I ask questions until I have the full picture, and then I keep asking. It's how I ended up speaking the lingo of pilots and flight attendants, and how I've become the designer in the room who can answer the operational questions, not just the design ones.
I work this way because I like knowing how things actually work. The full picture is where the good design decisions hide.
I love tinkering with things. At any given time, I'm probably doing a hands-on project, fiddling with a Hanayama puzzle, or Googling how to fix something I may have tinkered too much with.
The rest of my time goes to moving and making. Ballet, running, rock climbing, and oil painting when I want to slow down. But given the chance, I'll trade all of it for a canoe and a campsite for a few days.
And if I'm not doing any of that, I'm probably running to a gate to catch a flight.
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