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Before I became a UX designer,

I worked in a few areas.

I worked in event planning.

I also worked as a business development analyst.

I also worked in marketing

and at one point, I was a paralegal.

In order to do that, I had to be really

detailed and organized and stay on top of

the different tasks that I had to

handle in order to move the project forward.

I feel the skills

that I gained from being an event planner,

of being very detailed and organized,

really helped me be successful at leading projects here.

I got into UX design when I was working as

a business development analyst and I was

taking continuing ed classes at night.

I discovered interaction design while I was taking

an information design class, and we were asked

to make an infographic that's interactive.

I did a search online

trying to figure out what that meant

and somehow stumbled across interaction design.

While I was working full time,

I started to put together

a portfolio to apply to grad schools.

My favorite part about being a UX designer is

being able to work on complex problems

and trying to simplify these problems

into solutions that work for users.

I get into a flow state.

I'm very focused and my mind is just focused on designing

the different connection points going from one screen to another

and all the different ways

that the app could flow.

I really like being able to think about,

"I have these findings that I gained

from talking to research participants.

How do I bring it back into my design,

like a fully developed product?"

It feels amazing to see the work that you did

in wireframes in real life, in people's hands.

Hi, I'm Karen, and I'm an interaction designer.