If you didn't know by now, my name is Samson. I'll start by telling you that I've studied some form of art or design throughout my formal educational life. Concluding my degree in Illustration and Graphics Design in 2015, I had some time away from design due to long-term illness. Most of my time was spent helping run the family business (a Minicab office), working in retail and learning about UX design.
My first position as an intern at
Medwise.ai was an interesting one. I worked in a small team of very smart people. The task was designing a platform best described as an AI powered Google for doctors and other medical practitioners, that they could ask questions, and get responses that would mostly be concise summaries of medical studies. Definitely an interesting problem to work on, and a great first step into my professional career.
I'm currently working at CRC, designing and redesigning their internal systems. The business' service isn't as interesting as my first role at face-value, but the problems I work on solving are. Figuring out the best ways that people can work together, designing platforms to help them to reach that goal and seeing those improvements in their daily work is both a fun and satisfying experience.
Over time - and I guess because of my interest in design - I've become more keen on learning about subjects such as system design and behavioural science. The former, because the interconnectedness of things is apparent at some level throughout most things that concerns us as humans. My hope is that learning more about this subject will allow me to gain a clearer understanding of both the world, my world and also help me to become a better problem solver - whether that be within my professional or personal life.
It would make sense that my growing interest in behavioural science came from my interest in user experience design, but admittedly, stumbling across Rory Sutherland some years ago, and having a binge of his various talks is what really got me. It's amazing how a persons charisma and enthusiasm about a subject can be so infectious. Understanding the theories behind human behaviour, why people make the decisions they make is a fascinating subject and so much a part of what I do professionally.
Outside of UX design my interests include music - I enjoy going to concerts with friends or solo, to see artists that I love or am just discovering. Art - catch me at local exhibitions with finger-on-chin, seldom because I understand what the artist was trying to communicate, but because I'm amazed at how somebody could make something so cool. And sports - I'm an Arsenal fan (though I hope you'd forgive me for never having been to a match - I'm slightly allergic to massive crowds), a boxing fan (bonus fact: I used to train in martial art for a few years), and have recently started getting interested in Judo (some of the throws are just so beautiful to watch).
