Pleased to meet you.

I was born in Seoul, Korea, raised right across the George Washington Bridge in Northern NJ, and have been living in New York for over a decade. I was heavily influenced by hiphop in the 90’s and lived on the periphery of street or documentary style photography, skateboarding and graffiti. I studied journalism before I found design and have enjoyed every moment of its evolution since.

I currently in Brooklyn, NY with my loving husband and adorable (suspected) former bodega cat, Ibi.


  • 💻  I have 16 years across industries and disciplines from agencies, e-commerce, start-ups and ed tech. I can zoom out and in and see how projects scale.

    All of my background helps me continue to do what I love - product design. I love user experience design, 🔍 end-to-end strategy and implementation planning, 🗂️ design systems for all industries (education, product and marketing teams)

    📓 I can pivot, learn what I don’t know quickly, build bridges cross-functionally, wear many hats, but — can’t eat scallions.

    Today I am a design lead, manager, and sometimes educator with 16 years experience across industries and disciplines. I am also a design systems person and advocate.

    Recent Projects Include: Building/designing/writing a UIUX Curriculum, concept design for a next-gen learning platform, lead in creating two design systems, and directing design and strategy for B2B and B2C experiences.

    I find my joy in strategy, 🧐️ vision 🕶️ and planning for implementation 🛠️ of projects. I aim to be a lead who knows how to do and learn as much as I can direct. I work with an open-mind to welcome ideas from anyone, practice empathy for all and enjoy collaborating to create meaningful work. I also ❤️️ creating processes for efficient workflow and building bridges across teams.

  • My management style is someone who advocates for cross-team collaboration, can balance user and business goals to meet deadlines ⏱️, and has a people-first leadership approach.

    I have an empathetic, growth-mindset and come to cross-functional teams with humility and excitement to learn together.

  • ✨️ I currently serve on the AIGA NY Board of Directors as a Co-Lead for the programming team, have worked with Asian Creative Foundation in community building, spoke at Girls Who Code, and a 4-summer veteran of the wonderful ITP Camp.

    Non-Industry Related: I am a hyphen 🇰🇷 🇺🇸, I have a new found love for duck 🦆🎳 bowling, and have a strong aversion to raw onions. Most of my memories are through smell 👃🏻, and the latest show I am watching is What We Do in the Shadows on Hulu.

Strengths

End-To-End Strategy

  • Design Systems

  • Team management

  • Documentation

  • Roadmapping

  • Implementation planning

  • Identifying constraints and how they factor into design

  • Workshop facilitation

  • Cross-team collaboration

User Experience

  • User and product research

  • User journey mapping

  • Competitive Analysis

  • User interviews

  • Wire framing 

  • Site analysis

  • Stakeholder Interviews

Delivery Tools

  • Figma, FigJam

  • Google Suite

  • Adobe CC (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)

  • Miro, UXPressia

  • JIRA, Confluence

  • Working knowledge of HTML/CSS

  • Slack

Areas of Growth Include: Creating animations, photo composites, advanced prototypes

Visual and UI

  • Design direction

  • Web design

  • UI design

  • Print design

  • Style guides

  • Brand collateral

  • Not as strong in: creating animations, creating photo composites, creating advanced prototypes