Except being a product designer, I was also a landscape architectural designer for almost 9 years, which always motivates me to be sympathetic and curious about human interaction. Now let me explain to you why and how this background enhances my capabilities in UX design.

Despite the differences in end products, project durations, and lifespans between UX and landscape design, they share numerous overlapping processes and skills, which I am super familiar with and able to connect them together:

• ‍Need to understand clients’ goals, watch users' habits and understand their needs first;
• Need to balance what clients want & what they really need through analysis and synthesis;
• Come up with design solutions and test solutions through usability testing in UX and mock-ups in construction site;
• Measure success through launching product and finishing construction for landscape site;

A similar design process supports me when working on UX

Empathize

Client’s goal and user need

Define

Uncover insights from research

Ideate

Come up with design solutions & test

Deliver

Deliver product and measure success

Landscape sketches and renderings I produced (low-fi)

I like to produce low fidelity sketches to explore different ideas during design ideation and iteration process.

Landscape projects I designed and delivered (high-fi)

Working as a senior designer, this is what I am capable to finally deliver and launch, which involves rounds of testing and iterations.