Started creating wireframes in Photoshop and Illustrator, I worked with various UI design tools ranging from Balsamiq, AxureRP, Adobe XD to Figma and Framer. While I don't think the tools used is the most important thing for a designer, I appreciate the direction Figma, as the latest near-universal design/UI/UX tool, has been heading in, especially with the launch of features such as automatic layout, components, variables, logics, and prototype flow controls. I also greatly value any features and tools that ease, accelerate, and smoothen the hand-off from designers and developers as well as the continued collaboration between them; this is a major reason why I like tools such as Zeplin and methodologies such as design systems and integrations of design tokens.

On the relationship between design and development, personally I take a development-first perspective even though I am a designer. This means that to me design plays a role of guidance, facilitation, and support to development; often times the "design" is not the final deliverable, yet it is the design that informs and guides the implementation of the actual end product. Similar to designing and building a house, blueprints are often not the expected output; their value are process-based, therefore, implementation feasibility, user's ease-of-use, and overall build efficiency should come above aesthetics and visual novelty.

I value long-term investment in accumulation of knowledge, understanding, and experience in a specific domain over the ability of delivering generalized solution to problems with varied nature; I love to learn, analyze, process information, identify and frame the proper question, practice informed and fact-driven decision-making, and deliver well-developed solutions. This passion has been an influential factor in my past work experience and I look forward to continue to practice this with new products and projects.