Since childhood, I've known I wanted to become a designer. I respect design works that are crafted with care and refinement toward perfection.

Later on I studied Graphic Design at one of Vietnam’s most competitive design schools, where education was rooted in Bauhaus fundamentals: form serving function, and every design element must have a purpose. This foundation has shaped my design principle and philosophy to this day. When I encountered UX in my final years of study, I recognized the same values. It offered the balance I was already searching for between form and function, emotion and rationality, brain and heart. And so I decided to follow that path.

I spent the next few years working in several local tech companies. Vietnam’s tech scene moves fast and is highly competitive, and I had the (rare) chance to work across different product types and company stages. These experiences gave me a deep understanding on how design actually works in practice — not just polished screens in Figma, but real products shaped by company’s constraints, conversations, trade-offs, and shared decisions.

During this time, I also got to meet and work with truly AMAZING people — designers, researchers, PMs, developers — teammates whom I have fought alongside, gone through challenges with, and learnt a big deal from ❤️! My most valuable learnings did not come from text book and courses, but from the work itself, and from the talented colleagues I was lucky to work with! They say 'your colleagues are not your friend', but I guess I'd have to disagree with that :).