Hi!👋  I’m Evan

I’m a Product Designer passionate about

• Empathizing with people and solving their problems at the root
• Creating designs that are valuable, useful, and feasible
• Constantly learning new ways to do things

I found Product design in a less than traditional way. My first experience with design was when I co-founded MECH Labs, an aquaponics and sustainability consulting company where I acted as a business focused Product Designer without knowing it.

Creating self sustaining food production systems taught me to have a systems design mindset, thinking of all possible variables and how they interact, resulting in a stable system.

 I thought this love for understanding and creating complex systems was propelling me towards Biochemistry, so I pursued it wholeheartedly. I was a Biochemistry major at Arizona State University for a while, but after getting into my major coursework, I realized this wasn’t the path for me.

I missed interacting with people, uncovering, and solving their problems. I didn’t want to spend my whole life locked in a lab doing repetitive work with no empathetic outlets.

Then, I found UX, and my life was never the same. I found my true passion and dedicated my life to learning everything I could about it. After a while of following that passion on my own, I found General Assembly and completed their UXDI course. That, in combination with my extensive background both in business and science gives me a very unique take on UX Design.

Coming from a quantitative background in science and research, I apply metrics to everything I do in design. Science and design have a lot in common; both are attempts to interpret and describe the world around us. I want to apply a scientific method to a creative process in order to better understand users motivations.