As the youngest child in a STEM-inclined family in Indonesia, I strangely wasn't swarmed with music or sports lessons like most children of my upbringing. I pretty much had all the time in the world on top of my unlimited access to the internet. I began using the internet at a very early age, watching how humans interact with the digital world—how people connect with each other through screens. I was a child of the internet.

At the same time, I taught myself visual design with some influence from my unusually artsy sister. I spent my childhood expressing myself with watercolors, calligraphy pens, and my Dad's DSLR camera. By the time I was a teen, I was more fluent in colors, shapes, and patterns than any language I knew.

My childhood experiences incubated two things that I carry into my design practice: curiosity and care. Designers work on uncharted ground where we often don't even know what we don't know. In times like this, I continue moving forward knowing that my curiosity will guide me. That curiosity, combined with a lot of care for people and craft, has taught me to always design for people and delight first by befriending ambiguity.