First blog!!

Hello everyone! Welcome to my first blog post :) Excited for you to be here. I have been wanting to create a blog forever but I really started spiralling down a rabbit hole to get to this point.

First, I got obsessed with making the perfect personal website. My original website was starting to look very outdated and I wanted to work on making a new website. But, before I could make a website, I got really fixated on the perfect design so I started playing around with Figma. I used an existing template and made it my own. Little did I realize that working with grids can be hard, but more importantly I didn't love how text heavy and busy the site ended up being. It also didn't look great on mobile and having a responsive site was really important to me.

Next, I decided to do something a bit more fun. I got really excited about building a website that looks like a pixelated world. I got a sprite package, spent numerous hours cutting out pixelated houses from the sprite sheets, and made a cute little landing page. And as much as I love Stardew Valley kind of games, the website didn't really feel like me.

So here we are now. I actually really like this website. I feel like it also represents my obsession for stationary really well :D

Now I finally have a place to showcase all of my work, skills, experience and most importantly, I have a place to record my journey to become a better UI/UX engineer. I love making pixel-perfect websites and I want to get better at it; I want to learn more about frontend design, UI/UX fundamentals, design theory, and so much more! Not sure if anyone will ever read this blog, but if you are, I'm happy you're here and I hope you enjoy seeing me go through the ups and downs of becoming a better UI/UX engineer.