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My journey to become a UI UX designer started with my general visual artwork, and Digital/Visual Art Teaching experience. Within my teaching roles I would design and create a variety of lessons based on data driven reports, tests, and differentiation on students’ needs and skills required to learn within the grade. As a visual/digital artist my focus is on the human experience related to relationships, faith, social justice, and call to action pieces. Each of these works were created by conducting deep dive research to better understand the concept and asking various people for their feelings on the subject. From this base I would always start with a design system approach, how color would set the mood of each work, symbolism needed, sketches, design, re-design to the final ideation of the work.This style of art led me to gain more knowledge on human experience with auditing 30 credit hours of courses related to Mental Health Counseling. These courses helped to reinforce the knowledge gained with Springboard's UI UX design track towards (HCD) Human-Centered design. I am truly able to focus on individuals’ problems, goals, and needs with a true emphatic approach.In both my personal and professional life, I am always looking at ways that things could be re-designed for ease, or if there is a way to create a new design for something that has not been created yet. As a visual artist I will always continue my goals of creating work from the human experience, and as a UI UX Designer I will also take the HCD approach. Skills: UX Design, UI Design, Interaction Design, HCD, Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping, User Research, User Flows, Journey Maps, Storyboarding, Sketching, Empathy &Affinity Mapping, Visual Design, Style Guides, User Testing, AB Testing, Communication, Teamwork, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate CC, Blender,