Michell Hur
Medical student turned
user experience designer and user experience researcher.
INFO
I studied User Experience Design and Graphic Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
I studied medicine advocating for people's healing, always striving to curate an engaging human experience (life) as they navigate their environment, lifestyle, well-being, and recovery. Throughout this journey, I’ve been obsessed, curious, and driven toward understanding human interaction to build more intuitive solutions– there are many complexities in human relationships with nature and technology with so much still to explore. This helped me to guide my thoughts on what it means to save and improve lives.
I shifted my career towards designing for people in digital spaces because of a desire to design and make changes at larger and faster scales. Still, at the heart of these disciplines are what makes design valuable – it improves people’s lives holistically through emotion, functionality, and aesthetics. Instead of going to hospitals and clinics, however, people are now scrolling interfaces more and more. Medince has given me a deep understanding of pain, discomfort, and design in the natural world. This allows me to bring a systems view to designing interfaces that feel more humane with empathy, drive for good, craft, detail, and fluid interactions.
In my spare time, I enjoy exploring limitless creativity by producing music and painting my feelings to create a story. As someone who’s grown to appreciate architecture, I travel around and admire building concepts that change our understanding and push the limits of human interaction.
I always try to remember that the goal is not self-improvement. The goal is to engage more deeply with the World.
WHAT'S NEXT
I seek to develop my product sense further by thinking critically about the software I’m building while improving my craft in multimodal interaction. I value self-awareness and desire to understand better how teams and organizations think.
I care deeply about UX research and how designs look and feel. Through constant experimentation and iterations, I take details seriously, and I’m day-by-day developing a better intuition, or some might say 'taste', of what feels right. I’m not afraid of trying new things and always strive towards ‘best-in-class’.
FUN FACTS ABOUT ME
I am on a choreography video that has 21 million views on YouTube.
I have been living by myself in the United States since the age of 9. Due to this, I am unhesitant about absorbing, learning, and adapting to everything. This has shaped me into an individual who is fearless and flexible to new changes, ideas, and environments.
I've been a leader since the age of 10, and although I didn't originally plan for it, I've consistently held leadership positions everywhere, every year since then. This initially concerned my parents when I was younger, but they now consider it a valuable asset of mine.