I'm Isa—
designer, technologist,
maker of things.

I'm Isabella— Isa for short! I am a self-proclaimed creative technologist, interdisciplinary designer, and multimedia artist. Originally from the Bay Area, I am currently based in New York City, where I study at Parsons School of Design. I'm majoring in Design and Technology, and minoring in Communication Design and Society, Technology, and Management.

My path to design wasn't linear. I was originally headed towards medicine, treating creative work as a hobby. But I couldn't ignore the pull towards making. Creating is how I make sense of the world, and I had to follow it.

Today, my work sits at the intersection of front-end web design, HCI research, and AI-informed design systems. I am interested in how interfaces are built and how they are experienced, the architecture underneath and the human on the other side. I approach design both as craft and inquiry: attentive about systems, curious about people, and committed to building things that are not only functional and beautiful, but genuinely useful.

I work across the full arc of a project, from early research and design strategy through implementation and interaction. I am drawn to the complexity of designing at scale, how a design system holds together across contexts, how AI shifts the conditions of creative and collaborative work, and how small interaction decisions accumulate into the feeling of a product.

My process tends to be hybrid by nature. I move between coding and conceptual work, prototyping and research, visual systems and written thinking. That range informs how I approach project management and cross-functional collaboration. I am comfortable in the space between disciplines, and I find that is often where the most interesting problems live.