Designer, Community Builder, JavaScript-Obsessed Queen, Educator, Overachiever, R&B Shower Singer, Tech Influencer, Certified Afro Fluffer and your part-time Hype-Woman.
As a creative, your canvas is limitless. Whether that's providing solutions for the community you serve, designing applications for clients, or bringing your designs to life with a few lines of code, you are a creative. From one creative to another, welcome to my space!
A Product Designer who finds joy in creating with a deliberate and curious mindset. Currently, I'm pushing all the pixels around at Heroku (Salesforce). When I'm not analyzing my design decisions, I'm creating content for my design Facebook group Black Women in UX Design, YouTube, and Twitch. Don't worry, I take breaks from this design life to focus on traveling, painting, and enjoying culture.
Whether you're a designer, engineer or simply a creative being, training your design eye is crucial for becoming a bomb designer. You could be creating Instagram carousels, your personal portfolio website, designing a mobile app, freelancing, or enjoying your new design hobby, this course will help you learn what it takes to increase your design skills.
Writing has become an accountability partner for me. If I can write or teach about a topic, then I can probably say I know the topic. Also, sharing valuable content can totally help another person on their tech journey.
Before paying tons of money to learn at bootcamps, make sure you actually complete atleast 2 free courses. It will set you up for great understanding before the real work begins. Explore for free and once you are sure, invest in your learning.
read the postThe gap between engineering and design is such a place of comfort for me. Growing my knowledge around making scalable re-usable yet accessible components is my current focus.
Nothing fulfills me more than working with creatives via social media and sharing my knowledge. Recently, I've created a self-watering plant system with Arduino.
After transitioning from a Senior Product Designer, I took on a new role: Front-end Engineer at the end of 2019. Learning during a pandemic is extremely difficult so during this conference I will talk about how it "really" went down.
Pushing out video content is extremely fun. Although it takes a lot of prep time, I do enjoy sharing my knowledge. From my video podcast to tutorials, I love helping others learn about design and engineering.
