Who are you?

I’m Anna, a digital native designer and technophile who draws.

What do you do professionally?

I design digital interfaces and build websites. My strongest skills are UI Design and Product Thinking.

Currently, I’m the sole UI Designer at Shopflix, minimizing design debt, creating and maintaining a Design System, and balancing it all with business needs.

I write my own front-end code using HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript. I made this website using mostly handwritten HTML/CSS, Tachyons CSS and Jekyll. (It’s open source on GitHub!) My pet peeve is websites that break on “uncommon” breakpoints.

What makes you tick?

Challenges I can rise up to.

I want to do good in the world. I don’t feel I have yet.

All sorts of projects excite me, but the ones I crave are those that’ll help others: software that makes your life easier, apps that brighten your day, websites that promote equal rights.

What else?

I love sketching out concepts for apps I’d want to use and am looking forward to learning how to build them too!

Online, I hang out on Product Hunt (PH is full of low-quality ‘products’ these days…), read comics, watch anime, go down rabbit holes of all sorts, and learn how to build things for the web.

Offline, I’m into lifting weights, inline and ice skating, reading books, playing board games, and learning languages, to name a few.