One year ago, at age 23, I went through a long process of speaking to various doctors and other strangers and filling out forms and questionnaires. After about a month, they diagnosed me with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As a strongly empathetic and emotional person with “artsy” interests, I had…

Introducing “Cozy” — Background I am an adult on the autism spectrum and if I am too uncomfortable for too long, my nervous system will short-circuit. Since I still want to live a full and adventurous life, I have to make it a point to remove unnecessary or avoidable stressors and add things that…

Spoiler alert: a lot. Part 1: Dancing builds character by training agency and being empowering and humbling at the same time. — If I started this article by saying that dancing changed my life, you would be like “ooohh, so dancing changed your liiifee 🙄” …and I’d have to agree that that’s a cliché and soppy thing to say. I went through a 3-year dance training program and it was terrible…

A tutorial for UX designers and researchers, accompanied by a Notion template — You’ve conducted another round of user interviews. You have hectors of notes from different team members collected in Notion, Google Docs, on paper, etc. Now you feel a lot smarter, but you’re still faced with all sorts of questions: How do all these findings cluster around certain topics? Which findings…

A glimpse into what it’s like to get a bit too much input per second — I don’t really tell anyone “I am hypersensitive”, or even “I’m very sensitive”. Literally, no one would interpret it remotely the way it is meant. I wish there was a better word for it… (and please DM me if you have one.) …

3 Helpful tips to break the vicious circle of “hating” and neglecting yourself — Haven’t we all technically understood that it would be a good idea to “make peace with ourselves”? Relating to yourself in a more caring way will fuel resilience and self-confidence. It will help us be better versions of ourselves in any area of life. But unfortunately, we can’t just flip…

The difference between apricots and deep sea cucumbers, and how that reminds me of human ego — Since I can think, not one week passed without me wondering about who I am or what I’m doing here. So as a toddler, before I even knew letters, I identified a sensation and named it the “me-y feeling”. (You can read more about that here.) …

Understanding Teams, Projects, Files and Pages Figma has slowly become the most popular Design Software choice especially for large and/or mostly remote Design teams (so the vast majority). Its features support sketching, iterating and whiteboard practices, feedback collection and collaboration, version control, wireframing in all fidelities, mature prototyping and testing…

How to link your emotions to your actions and find motivation — at work and in life. — Every single thing we do needs to be motivated by something. In this story, I’ll write about what moves us humans — first literally, on a physical level, and then applied to the realm of work. …