With the start of November, the weather is beginning to feel cooler and cooler. I’m very happy with the weather now and I’ve been enjoying these past few days getting to wear warmer clothes and spend more time outside. I’m also excited for the break to relax and spend time with family and friends.

Within LAITS, I continued working mostly on the STA Presentation poster. Our biggest challenge right now is to make sure the poster looks like behind the scenes of a game show/several game shows without making it look like we are… spying… on our STAs. To do this, I received some feedback to lighten the background to give it a more “lively” feel rather than “sneaky”.

I’ve also been working on adding in some assets and details, such as wires, spotlights, glowing screens, and more. I’m currently in between being finished with all assets and waiting on finalize photos before I start rendering, so I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the little things.

I and my art director are happy with the direction this project is going so far. Starting on this poster so early has allowed me to really go in depth on details and explore a lot of new skills in Illustrator.

I don’t have much else other than this to share. I will be starting on some trainings too to fill in the waiting periods between submitting my progress and waiting to hear feedback on essential details before moving forward.

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.