Occasionally offline
For the past five years I’ve set myself a target mountain and dragged myself up it. Get in touch to recommend my next hike!
2023 - Roy’s Peak, NZ ✔
2022 - Ben Nevis ✔
2021 - Seven Sisters ✔
2020 - Covid: I got very familiar with my local park though…
2019 - Ben Vrackie ✔
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A little about me
I’m Miranda - a Londoner, designer and history buff who never grew out of cartoons. If I’m not designing or doodling I’m thinking about football as, unfortunately, my weekends are won or lost by the results of a team in red and white.
Journey to UX
So I studied history - because I love figuring out the causes of things, exploring our biases and a range of perspectives (and reading about old shit). But I left university with no idea what to do next - familiar story.
I fell into digital marketing work and copywriting football content. I was - and still am - very online and wanted to start making my own digital stuff. I taught myself the Adobe suite, loved Illustrator and Photoshop, then started a small online shop selling prints of my digital art.
I became the one in the office who could fix your presentation, or come up with a logo, or manage your website and then finally someone you could trust to help redesign your software’s UI. I finally decided to transition from that undefined ‘creative’ to UX because I wanted to create things that actually solve problems. I like helping people and want to create things that just make their lives a little easier and hopefully more fun. I’m taking every opportunity to learn more.
Aug ‘23
Education
Software
Adobe Creative Cloud & Figma
Here’s what I’ve used so far in life - if there’s something new, give me a couple of evenings and a YouTube tutorial. I’m on it.