Hi there, I’m Jade 🌸

Located in the DC/VA Area, you can find me working as a consultant and freelance UX/UI Strategist. I’m an interdisciplinary designer with a B.S. in Informatics from UC Irvine — a major spanning HCI, design, and human behavior — with a minor in Sociology. That combination shapes how I approach design: the socio-technical aspect of a user’s experience is just as important as the product itself.

Outside of design I’m:

• Trying out creative DIY projects I’ve bookmarked 🎨

• Cafe hopping with friends ☕️

• Learning how to play pickleball 🏓

• Analyzing viral publicized social experiments (reality TV) 🏝️

• Adding to my blindbox and sticker collections ⭐️

Wanna learn more? Feel free to check out my resume and connect with me on LinkedIn.

My Design Origin Story 🦸🏻‍♀️

Design has always been instinctive for me — long before I knew what UX was, I was obsessing over Google Slides layouts while everyone else just threw text on a blank slide. I cared about where things lived on a page, how they felt to look at, and whether everyone in the room felt included by what I made.

That instinct found a name when my sister, who works in tech, introduced me to UX design. I started having coffee chats with designers at Meta, AT&T, and DIRECTV — and quickly realized this was the intersection I'd been gravitating toward my whole life: technology, people, and the spaces between them.

I studied Informatics at UCI with a minor in Sociology, which shaped how I think about design — not just as a visual craft, but as a way of understanding behavior and building things that work for everyone.