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I'm Lisa, I'm a visual designer at Google.

A visual designer at Google is

a user experience designer that

really focuses in on

the creative expression of a user experience.

When I decided I wanted to get

into user experience design,

I had no experience.

I didn't have a real first job yet.

I had a very traditional graphic design

and branding portfolio.

I had new projects from doing

an internship for nine months that I'd created.

But then I decided that I wanted to go into

UX and I needed to recreate that portfolio,

having no work experience in UX,

to still be a user experience portfolio.

When I was just applying to user experience jobs,

I knew I wanted to be a visual designer.

Even though at heart I was still

unsure if I wanted to call myself that,

I knew it was important to identify myself

like that strategically in the portfolio,

so I said that I was a visual designer.

The actual portfolio in itself,

I had to completely redo the layout.

I don't need to start from scratch,

I don't need to panic, everything is there.

I just need to reroute the way that I am

storytelling and bringing some of these elements to life,

so it does feel more like a user experience project.

I really focused in on

the storytelling and the thinking

like user experience designer.

It was interesting because when I got to Google,

I felt, okay, I can think like this.

I just now need to catch up on the day-to-day,

the tools, the software,

the things that most people know going in,

that somehow I faked it till I made it.

The funny part about that is my team

didn't seem to care that I didn't know any of that.

They were just happy that I was curious,

that I was hungry to learn,

that I was anxious to get started on a project.

What really defined how I got into the job

was a curiosity to learn, and to grow,

and to project myself as a ambitious visual designer.