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I'm Collin, UX Designer

I'm Collin, nice to meet you!

Identifying the “why” behind user motives, behaviors, and beliefs is my passion. Knowing why we interact with technology is the first step towards building great design on and off the screen.
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I hold my Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction Design, from Indiana University Bloomington. I instructed graduate design students on design and research techniques, implementation, analysis, and presentation. I have published a design case and presented in Olso, Norway, at NordiCHI '18. My experience additionally extends towards digital agency work at Vox Global, where I juggled a variety of web designs from scratch, Talentguard, an HR SaaS Solution, where I managed 4 products as a "full stack" designer and researcher, Living Security, a Cybersecurity Training and HRM platform, where I co-authored and executed the UXR practiceto create and validate lo-fi design work to feed the pipe for our UI/UX designers.

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Let's create the experiences that make us human. Cheers!

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Photo shot from the center of Vigeland Park, Oslo, Norway.

When I am not at my computer iterating on the latest UX trends, I am intentionally developing my creativity and critical thinking by engaging with my favorite aspects of life: cooking, travel, music, cultivating sustainable practices, and reading.

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Cooking is therapy! It is health and sustenance. Most of all, cooking is engaging in the practice of living well. I love understanding the particular qualities of every ingredient and bringing them into a unique creation, every time.

Getting on plane and traveling to somewhere I have never been, bunking in a hostel, and relying upon maps, curiosity, and a desire to be changed by the unknown. I have been fortunate to ramble through China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Norway, and Germany. I want to learn from everywhere!

I have been playing around with percussion since I was 11, ukulele and banjo since 19, and guitar at 20. Playing music creates an intangible joy that connects me to others through time and space, by the means of the instrument itself. Every object has a personality, and I love expressing with it!

What do I sound like?

Recycle, Upcycle, Renew & Re-use! Intentionally working to instill habits that facilitate both meaningful labor, creation, and efforts that respect our planet has become a passion for me in recent years! I delight in different ways of noticing objects once used and thus overlooked. What may seem to be inconvenience or waste can become new materials or a rich new kind of activity! Pictured are upcycled bottles used as water-weights for my homemade saurkraut fermentation!

Before design work, my background was in Religious Studies, Psychology, Music and Linguistics. As an equal pursuit to confront the unkown and expand my ways of knowing, I engage in the bad habit of reading too many things at once! Some of my primary influences aside from design thinking are the works of Charles Taylor, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Anthony Bourdain, and other existential and phenomenological thinkers!

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Travel

Play Music

I have been playing around with percussion since I was 11, ukulele and banjo since 19, and guitar at 20. Playing music creates and intangible joy that connects me to others through time and space, by the means of the instrument itself. Every object has a personality, and I love expressing with it!

What do I sound like?

Pursue Sustainable Habits

Recycle, Upcycle, Renew & Re-use! Intentionally working to instill habits that facilitate both meaningful labor, creation, and efforts that respect our planet has become a passion for me in recent years! I delight in different ways of noticing. What may seem to be inconvenience or waste can become new materials or a rich new kind of activity! Pictured are upcycled bottles used a water-weights for my homemade saurkraut fermentation!