A continuous line of inquiry.

My practice began in industrial design, where I learned to think through materials, form, ergonomics, prototyping, and the relationship between people and objects. Making taught me that even small design decisions can shape how something is understood, used, and experienced.

Over time, human-centered design shifted my attention from designing objects toward investigating the experiences around them. UX introduced research methods for understanding behavior, needs, information, and interaction, while museum studies expanded those questions into cultural interpretation, visitor experience, accessibility, and public engagement.

I am currently completing the Combined Degree Program at the University of Toronto, pursuing a Master of Information with a concentration in User Experience and a Master of Museum Studies.

Across these fields, I am especially interested in visitor experience, accessibility, inclusive and multisensory design, interpretation, and the ways people encounter cultural information beyond vision-first or text-heavy approaches.

I investigate how people experience, interpret, and access information, objects, spaces, and cultural environments.

My research practice includes qualitative interviews, visitor research, observation, usability testing, accessibility evaluation, content analysis, information architecture, and thematic analysis. I use these findings alongside prototyping, interaction design, physical making, spatial thinking, and exhibition design to translate research into tangible design decisions.

Rather than beginning with a predetermined solution, I prefer to understand the context first:

• What are people trying to do?
• What assumptions are embedded in the existing experience?
• Where do barriers appear?
• What other forms of participation might be possible?

Research helps me understand what matters in a particular context. Design gives me a way to explore, test, and communicate possible responses.

My current interests sit at the intersection of design research, museums, accessibility, visitor experience, and cultural interpretation.

I am particularly interested in how museums and cultural institutions communicate knowledge, how visitors build understanding through different sensory and interpretive pathways, and how exhibition experiences can move beyond relying primarily on vision, text, or assumed prior knowledge.

I am also increasingly interested in how cultural information is produced and interpreted beyond institutions: how audiences, communities, and fan cultures create shared meanings, references, archives, and forms of knowledge around media and cultural experiences.

These questions connect to a broader interest in how information is selected, structured, interpreted, circulated, and shared—and how design influences who can participate in those processes.