Spring + Summer

STA Presentation

STA Presentation! (End of Summer Marketing 2026)

In April I had the opportunity to present a year’s worth of designs at the End of Year STA Presentations Ceremony. I talked about how important data and metrics are to design, even in graphic design! I walked through previous iterations and even played a little eye-tracking game with the audience. It was also my ring ceremony day, so it was just a special day all around!

Looking back at my time as the lead designer for UT Summer online, I learned to…

• Never stop iterating
• Consider all details on a design, no matter how minute
• Create a visual ecosystem, spanning different mediums and platforms

Summer Internship

This summer I had the opportunity to work as a UI/UX Design Intern at Elevate, a fintech company. As one of only two designers in a mid-sized company (~500 employees) and the sole intern, I learned so much and gained a ton of confidence as a designer!

I owned three main projects during my time:

1. Modal Redesign: Our consent modals were unstructured and causing a lot of user friction. My job was to standardize these modals to eliminate rage-clicking and decrease user drop-off.
2. Typography System: I audited 19 web pages and found over 100 different font variations. From there, I created a cohesive new type system and successfully implemented it onto a landing page.
3. Error Pages: During the application flow, users lacked clear error pages to help them recover or understand their application status and progress. I mapped out these critical edge cases to ensure our pages properly guided users when the system hit a snag.

At the end of the internship I got to see my modal redesign launch and see users actually use the product. It was really cool seeing how my efforts actually make a different in the users experience.