Hi, I'm David, a UX designer who got here the long way.

I'm a UX product designer based in Mesa, AZ, and an MS UX student at ASU's Fulton Schools of Engineering, graduating Spring 2027. I came to this discipline the long way around.

I started in fine art: photography, 3D modeling, and video production. They taught me to look closely and build a frame around someone's attention. But the question that pulled me into UX was a harder one: how do you know something actually works for the people who use it? That is not a matter of taste. It is a matter of evidence, you research it, you test it, you watch real people use it. Design, done well, is more a science than an art.

That question pushed me into marketing and social media design: a way to reach an audience instead of waiting for one to find me. But the audience that mattered most to me was still bigger than what marketing could reach. I figured out, somewhere along the way, that the discipline that touches the most lives is the one shaping the products people open every day. So I went back to school for UX.

Off the clock, I 3D-print things I don't need, lose evenings to video games, and share a desk with a cat who has very firm opinions about which chair is hers.