HEY THERE!
HEY THERE!
HEY THERE!
Designer · Chicago-based · USC '25
I'm Denisse, a UX designer who grew up as an illustrator and graphic designer. With design, I want to cut through the complexity of today’s infrastructure, especially where language and education gaps keep people from getting the help they need. If I can make it engaging along the way, even better. I’m especially passionate about public health and urban planning. Ask me about the lack of shade in Los Angeles, and I’ll talk your ear off.
I studied Design at USC, with a few detours into animation, UX, and screenwriting. The multi-verse: morning-show editor, swim teacher to kids aged four months to twelve years, and briefly a carpenter's assistant on student theatre sets (more on that below).
I'm Denisse, a UX designer who grew up as an illustrator and graphic designer. With design, I want to cut through the complexity of today’s infrastructure, especially where language and education gaps keep people from getting the help they need. If I can make it engaging along the way, even better. I’m especially passionate about public health and urban planning. Ask me about the lack of shade in Los Angeles, and I’ll talk your ear off.
I studied Design at USC, with a few detours into animation, UX, and screenwriting. The multi-verse: morning-show editor, swim teacher to kids aged four months to twelve years, and briefly a carpenter's assistant on student theatre sets (more on that below).
A few things I'll talk your ear off about
A few things I'll talk your ear off about
Why Los Angeles has no shade
Why Los Angeles has no shade
A city built for cars deprioritizes space for greenery and razes trees for parking lots. The neighborhoods least likely to afford cars are also the ones with the fewest trees.
A city built for cars deprioritizes space for greenery and razes trees for parking lots. The neighborhoods least likely to afford cars are also the ones with the fewest trees.
Viruses!
Viruses!
I've loved learning about them since I was a kid. These super tiny, invisible things can level entire populations. The Hot Zone got me hooked, but The Viral Underclass taught me the harder lesson: inequity decides who gets infected, and who gets infected worse.
I've loved learning about them since I was a kid. These super tiny, invisible things can level entire populations. The Hot Zone got me hooked, but The Viral Underclass taught me the harder lesson: inequity decides who gets infected, and who gets infected worse.
Teaching toddlers to swim
Teaching toddlers to swim
Scared kids can't be talked into the deep end — you have to watch what's actually stopping them, then change the next step. Same instinct I use in design.
Scared kids can't be talked into the deep end — you have to watch what's actually stopping them, then change the next step. Same instinct I use in design.
awesome at trying
awesome at trying
Happy to give anything a good old-fashioned try; might be a baby deer about it at first, i.e. the time I stapled my own thumb as a carpenter's assistant.
Happy to give anything a good old-fashioned try; might be a baby deer about it at first, i.e. the time I stapled my own thumb as a carpenter's assistant.
