“I want to be a nurse.”

I was 5 when I announced my career choices for the first time.

But the answer was totally random.

As a child I couldn’t decide on that one thing for me.

I wanted to be a chef, a hostess of TV shows, a hairdresser and more. To experience it all excites me.

I came to the UK in 2017 and completed two masters degrees in film after finishing an English BA in China.

This was when I realised I loved dealing with complexity where the conceptual, textual and historical meet.

One big theme that fascinated me was periods of major shifts, so I could imagine how things are experienced differently.

Although I thoroughly enjoyed researching, I decided not to pursue a PhD degree just yet as I felt my real passion didn’t lie in film itself.

When I was crafting the weekly editorial for a film distribution company, the creative side of me further awakened, this time through visual design.

Started off during the pandemic as a hobby, jewellery making channels my teeming creative instincts to tangible shapes.

With inspirations from nature, travel or life revelations, my jewellery evolved with me and reaffirmed my decision to pursue a creative path.

My last job involved leveraging data and increasing efficiency of ad spend at a tech-powered  performance marketing company.

I was introduced to a more scientific approach to work. However, as much as I embraced the test-and-learn culture and efficient workflow, there’s something missing.

I only found myself most fulfilled when finishing building a reporting system from scratch. Creating is what I enjoyed the most. Ideally connected to a bigger purpose.

2022 was a year when tons of self-exploration and alignment happened, including frequent changes of hair colours, reflection on gender expression through voguing (a dance genre), and my spiritual awakening.

The last one is extremely important as I found courage from within and firmly followed my intuition to sign up for a UX bootcamp.

The 3-month UX Design Immersive course at General Assembly was life-affirming.

UX speaks to every aspect of me!

My biggest interests and strength: research and design.

My natural approach: scientific rigour combined with creative intuition.

My enduring fascination since childhood: experience and how it mediates inner drives to shape external realities.

My quest for bigger meanings and future-centric outlook. Hence the tech industry.

Key lessons: teamwork

Beyond design skills and thinking, I discovered the magic of team work, where trust and support enabled us to achieve something greater.