The Blogging Sponge Animation
A fun lip sync animation test. (Watch with audio!)
Work-life balance matters 90% of the time. But what you do with that other 10% — whether you grind or coast — will determine your career trajectory.
Browse your wardrobe, build outfits (manually or with AI), save looks, and plan packing lists for trips. I finally built my version of Cher’s closet (with zero technical knowledge).
A documentation of my 4-year-long interior design process, and a lesson in slow decorating.
I’m so extra I learned HTML and CSS for my wedding. Another project where I got to learn and build and learn and build — my favorite thing to do.
Learning about new tools, meeting colleagues IRL, and spamming downtown San Francisco with thousands of lime green tote bags at the biggest, buzziest design conference in tech.
When I was starting out, tech jobs were so mysterious. Unless you hit up a career fair in college and worked an internship in Big Tech (both of which I missed because my career journey had its fair share of twists and turns), I had zero idea how people did it.
About 4 years ago, I started my first job as a product designer at thredUP. Here are some things I’ve learned during my time there.
I owe my career to hackathons. For a new designer, they’re the perfect opportunity to learn, work with a team of people from different backgrounds, and use your design prowess to lead and present.
As art director of Studio Sophy, I want to ensure I’m always putting out content I’m proud of. I needed a set of well-documented guidelines.
They enrich my perspectives, expose me to diversity and new opinions, and allow me to look at life and the human experience in new fascinating ways.
At an annual Code for America-sponsored event that brings together volunteers to partner with local government and community groups, I completed a design audit of California’s benefits applications.
I wish there was an option to organize my home feed recommendations by genre. Here’s an idea on how it can be done.
In a world full of doubt and ‘that's not possible’s, it's awe-inspiring to find yourself in a space that nurtures and thrives on wild ideas. We dream, we build, and we help one another build dreams. It’s innovation at its purest.
The earliest recollection I have of my career aspirations was wanting to be an inventor. I loved to dream and draw out the crazy things I'd imagine, like a boat-car-plane.
Attended a developer conference was humbling and eye-opening. I also got to participate in a hackathon where we built a digital platform for the immigrant community.
I thought I'd learn to use Facebook's prototyping tool, Origami, to create a simple screen transition.
At the root of it all, you must use your disciplined training and wealth of knowledge to create something that serves more than yourself.
We want to build an app that helps people with mobility disabilities increase their changes of survival during a fire incident.
This past weekend I participated in Silicon Valley's first mental health hackathon. My team created a public health service web app that allows treatment-seeking individuals to take free screenings and connect to available providers.
I designed an app for pharmaceutical lab equipment company Apricot Design's Personal Pipettor.
Cal Poly Corporation has been a huge part of my time here, so here's a fun blog post reflecting on the longest job I've ever had.
AI this, AI that. Where does the human come in? My thoughts on the future of the design industry coming out of the 2026 Figma Config conference.