about me(lissa)

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I'm a creator and experimenter. I love helping people and working with a team to create thoughtful products that empower people.

In my past life, I was a healthcare worker for 5+ years serving as a patient advocate during the day and a crafter at night. Although my background seems to be the polar opposite of design, I found that I couldn't stop creating and saw how my artwork was inspiring others. So I after 5+ years in healthcare, I said, "No, I don't want no scrub..." and started my new journey as a freelance calligrapher.

As a calligrapher, I learned to become an experimenter and a master at failing. It taught me to look at the world through a creative and curious lens - try something new even if it doesn't succeed. Through this journey, I realized that what I was yearning to do was a combination of my past lives - to practice compassion and solve problems at scale through a creative lens. That's when I fell into the rabbit hole of UX design.

The more I dove into it, the more I realized that my past lives fostered my superpowers: compassion, human-centered, and data-driven while nurturing my curiosity and eye for detail.

Today I am a designer that creates products that drive impactful experiences that empower the vulnerable and voiceless.

Whenever I'm not cultivating my growing pixel paranoia, I can be found in the world of modern calligraphy or working on an illustration series of a digital "mini me." 

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