Sentient Studio
UI/UX Designer · Oct 2020 — Jul 2021
My first role out of engineering school. Designed digital presences — apps and websites — for a portfolio of early-stage startups.
View projectWhat I worked on
Studio life — short cycles, varied clients, lots of practice across product categories. I picked up the rhythm of designing under constraint: a fixed scope, a real deadline, and a client who needed to be persuaded.
What I am proud of
Cut turnaround time on early-stage projects by tightening the research-to-prototype loop into something I could do in days instead of weeks.
Pushed for prototypes as the deliverable, not static screens. Clients stopped arguing about details once they could click through the thing.
Earned my fundamentals here — type, hierarchy, motion. The stuff a CS degree didn't give me but that this studio did.
Key metrics
Startup websites & apps
Shipped digital presence for 4–5 startups including marketing sites and product prototypes.
Research → high-fidelity prototypes
Ran ideation and research with clients, then translated insights into Figma prototypes that improved approval rates and shortened turnaround.