I was the 21st employee at Tars Technologies and one of the first design hires. There was no design system, no defined process, or how the team would function. The foundation work fell to 3 designers.
Tars TechnologiesI learned to read developer docs. Without a design system, the React component library's implementation docs became my guiding light, they told me exactly where I could stretch a component and where I couldn't.
Physical prototyping. Human-Robot Interaction assistant instructor under Dr. Selma Šabanović. A robot dancing to Thriller in Unity.
I went from being one of three designers at a startup to sitting next to senior product designers at one of the largest fintech companies in the US. I could lean over mid-design and get feedback on an interaction, a decision or just life in general. I learned more in those three months than I expected to.
Rocket Mortgage
