User experience researching supporting the Morgan Stanley Firmwide Marketing and Investment Management department. Defining, analyzing, and socializing research studies that generate insights that directly informs the business on brand and design decisions as well as marketing strategy with cross-functional partners, including Product Management, Design, Tech, and more.

Contract UX/UI Designer to support Morgan Stanley's Investment Management (MSIM) UX Team, with a focus on combining multiple acquired websites/brands into one experience. Job functions include designing and delivering web and mobile interfaces based on best practices, building design specifications that comply with existing brand guidelines for each brand (MSIM, Eaton Vance, Calvert), including digital products with data visualizations and dashboards for financial services, partnering with brand team, engineers and compliance team to understand limitation on design options, and contributing to the growing design system consisting of components and UI patterns, providing documentation and use cases.

For the TOPS Project, I partnered with my design manager, product owner, developers, and product users such as internal salespeople and financial advisors to establish the MVP and product roadmap and create the initial product concept. The TOPS project is the creation of the TOPS (Tax Optimization Portfolio Solutions) engine, which is an analysis tool for taxable clients seeing to reposition an existing stock portfolio to more closely align with a client-specified target portfolio while minimizing transition tax costs.

Programs used include the M365 suite (WXP, Teams, Outlook), Figma, Figjam, UserTesting, Jira, Monday board

Skills: User research, information architecture, storytelling, public speaking, design systems, design libraries, branding collaboration, visual design, wireframing, prototyping, mockups, usability testing, design thinking, competitor analysis, data synthesis.

Contract designer for Nerdy Diva. Position and role includes:

Skills used: mentoring, UI design, UX design, information architecture, visual design, storytelling.

Creator and business owner at Tiramaesu, my one-woman sticker and stationery brand inspired by Japanese kawaii culture, cats, and everyday life. I design everything myself—stickers, memo pads, greeting cards, and more—hoping to connect with others who find comfort and creativity in cute things. From stickers and memo pads to accessories that brighten up your space, Tiramaesu is a destination for stationery lovers and fans of the kawaii aesthetic who appreciate fun, thoughtfully designed pieces that add personality to their space.

Created a collaborative capsule collection with SHEIN / ROMWE company. Illustrated 3 pieces to be printed on tees, hoodies, sweatshirts, etc.

Continuing another collaboration with SHEIN to develop more apparel designs with the theme of music festivals and researching patterns and viral trends to create an eye-catching and aesthetic design.

Skills and tools: Clip Studio Paint Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Sketching, Digital illustration, Cel Shading, minimal illustration, kawaii-aesthetic, cat / animal illustrations, trend and market research, moodboard, design research, visual design