I’m a Design Technologist and User Experience Designer. By day I design + <code> digital products and also craft Design Systems. By night I enjoy hand lettering, making moss art and illustrations.
I'm in the business of engineering...
feelings.
Doctrine:
"Design is not the solution...
it is the process.
From sketching a single Sign Up page to building an app from scratch in code, I follow the same design-to-code process. The consistency of my output is rooted in the strength of this process, however it is not dogma and it adapts to specific use cases.
The purpose of this step is to define clearly what is the problem I am trying to solve, gather as much information as I can about the factors that might affect the problem, and establish goals.
Through a Divergence Sprint, I come up with as many ideas as I can that I think solve the problem based on the constraints and data gathered from Step 1. I choose the best solution and then formulate a testable hypothesis. I should be able to educatedly elaborate how and why I chose that solution and subsequent hypothesis.
Design is not just aesthetics. It has to make sense and invoke targeted feelings. By empathizing with the user, I can create an experience that delivers the least Cognitive Dissonance and most positive visceral reactions. I find this Step to be the most rewarding and fun since is the the most human. I also usually start thinking about what technologies to use when coding/building and what technology constraints do I have. For this step my tool of choice is pen and paper, a whiteboard and Sketch app.
At this point, I have a testable hypothesis and a solution depicted through positive experiences crafted in Step 3. This is where you get to validate if your hypothesis is correct. I will usually conduct formal research studies, user interviews, A/B testing utilizing Invision, Axure, or AdobeXD to wire the designs and Flinto, Principle, or Origami for the interaction.
Once I have the results from my testing, I hopefully validated my hypothesis. If I succeed, I go forward with this last step in this iteration and build the solution or feature in code. It is not until I have validated a hypothesis that I even open the Terminal. That way I have data and logic to back my executions in code. After building, I move on to the next cycle of the same 5 steps.
Anatomy simply describes the dissection and the separation of parts, particularly, of living organisms. User Interfaces are just like living organisms. They are born from inception, they grow as Designers learn...
A Design System is simply a Language. A tool for communication. Just like English or Spanish, these spoken languages have rules and guidelines that allow one human being to communicate with another. A Design System is just that...
Check out how I landscape Nature's bush. Custom art I design and craft made entirely of moss and organic materials.