Growing up, I was the kid who never stopped asking questions. In Korea, we have a saying: "The rascal four"— that relentless phase when four-year-olds ask why about everything. I never grew out of it.

That let me to design. I've always drawn to understanding the craft behind things that work beautifully, and I realized that combining that obsessive need to ask "why?" with a love for creating functional, thoughtful experiences was pretty much product design in a nutshell.

In practice, this means I don't settle for surface-level answers. I dig into root causes and look for the subtle truths hiding in plain sight. To me, great design doesn't start with a problem statement - it starts with truly understanding the problem itself. My process always begins with deep discovery: what's been tried before, what worked (or didn't), and why.

I've spent over five years working across hospitality, startups, and B2B e-commerce. Currently, I'm at Boston Scientific, where I own and manage global design systems. Whether I'm crafting a design system from scratch or taking a product from 0 to 1, I bring the same curiosity and care to every part of the design lifecycle.