From Blueprint to Bytes: A Designer's Journey

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It started with architecture — learning to read space, structure, and the invisible lines that shape how people move through the world. Urban design expanded that thinking to entire cities — systems, communities, and the deeply human stories hidden inside every street corner and public square. A Master's in Design in London, then San Francisco — each city a new lens, each culture a new layer of empathy, curiosity, and perspective added to my craft. Seventeen countries, sixty-two cities — travel rewired how I see problems, how I listen to people, and how I design for lives very different from my own. Google's Product Design and HCI certification sharpened the pivot — spatial thinking became systems thinking, and architecture blueprints transformed into digital product wireframes. Today I design at the intersection of human intuition and artificial intelligence — an AI-native product designer who builds not just beautiful interfaces, but meaningful, intelligent experiences.