As a User Experience Designer, I strive to offer deeper forms of engagement with the world around us. I place understanding at the centre of my approach, and ground my work in a familiarity with the people affected by it and a strong theoretical base. This need to understand first is what motivates me, and I find myself using design as a way to interrogate aspects of the lives I encounter, as well as my own.
Projects
- Ti: A Queer Social Network‘Ti: A Queer Social Network’ is a research and design project that focuses on the interplay of identity, queerness, and social networking. Social networks have the power to affect self-identity, and play a significant role in the identity construction of the queer people who use them. My user research revealed some stark disconnects between the activity of LGBTQ+ people on social networks and the platforms and wider environment that exist to serve them. Ti was designed as a response: a social m