Origin Story
What happens when four graduate students are stuck in a studio every day? They band together to found a small but mighty design agency. Despite the more-than-enough coursework, they wanted to pursue research and design on a larger scale and work on real products and services.
Our name is inspired by, quite literally, our graduate design studio, which has an upper and lower studio. The upper studio was always a bit too warm, but that's what brought us together during our winter quarter when the idea was born. Embodied in our name, only the highest and most top-notch quality of work comes out of UpperStudio.
Who We Are
I’m a product designer with a strong skill set in quantitative and qualitative research, which I developed through agency and in-house roles in market research. I like to dig into the core of human behavior, and with my background in psychology, I strive to understand the human at the center of different contexts, environments, and experiences.
I thrive in the sweet spot between research and design, using insights to inform early ideas and strategy or leveraging data to iterate for a better user experience. I approach every project with the mind of an expert but the attitude of a lifelong learner.
