hey there!
I'm Sarina! 👋
I'm a UX design and entrepreneurship student at the University of Michigan. What actually pulls me into a project is simple: my never ending curiosity. Every design challenge is a puzzle in disguise, and the process of putting the pieces together never fails to excite me!
Outside of design, I'm probably watching movies, trying a new restaurant, traveling, drawing, or golfing with my family. The people-first thing doesn't really switch off outside of work either.
Always happy to connect, say hello on LinkedIn!
latest detour…
Spent a month in Barcelona learning from Spanish entrepreneurship professors, who pushed us to pick a problem and talk to actual strangers to validate it before designing anything.
We rapid-prototyped, got feedback, and iterated in Figma Make for two different projects.
First time I really felt the difference between designing from an idea versus designing entirely from what people tell you.
my design philosophy
research is leverage
Taking the time to really understand a problem before jumping to solutions, even when it's the first thing pressure tends to cut, because it usually ends up being the thing that mattered most.
objective over ego
Remembering that the work belongs to the goal and not to me makes it easier to stay open and let feedback shape it into something better.
prove it, then polish
Staying low-fidelity for as long as the problem needs it, then moving quickly once the direction feels right, so effort goes toward what's actually going to work.
off the clock
