Meet the Resident alumni.
Find out about the creative passions that drive them and the unique projects they developed during their Residency year.
In their own words.
Get inspired by stories from past residents, and see how they’ve evolved from beginner to pro.
Maddy Beard
UX/UI designer
“I’m now going to be able to turn my personal project into paid work for a client in my dream industry. Being a Resident has given me the courage and confidence to take action on things I never would have otherwise.”
Christina Poku
Photographer
“Being a Creative Resident is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I’ve grown my international network, developed new skills, and explored new ways of working that got me out of my comfort zone.”
Aundre Larrow
Photographer
“Often when you work on something that’s successful, the client will ask you to do that same thing repeatedly until it’s not popular anymore. But [the Residency] gives you the ability to show the range of your skills, because the client is really yourself.”
Natalie Lew
Interaction designer
“The Residency gives me the chance to explore what I am passionate about and enables me to focus on learning, experimenting, and prototyping.”
Aiko Fukuda
2019 Resident
Tokyo, Japan
Aiko is a multidisciplinary artist and art director. During her Residency, she experimented with mixing analog and digital tools through Augmented Reality (AR) to create artworks based on her ongoing project “What’s possible with my illustrations?”. She offers online tutorials, sharing her knowledge to help build up others’ creative careers and to engage with the creative community. She is currently working on her magical AR popup book that she started during her Residency, which she hopes to publish in the near future.
COSMOPOLITAN JAPAN
“Let’s love things as they are”, Artist Aiko Fukuda’s thoughts on her work
The cover art for May was created by Aiko Fukuda, an illustrator and artist. While making use of her experience abroad, she is active in a wide range of stages such as domestic and foreign magazines, media, and advertisements. We followed her constantly taking on various challenges, such as the fusion of illustrations and digital art.
Juan José Egúsquiza
2019 Resident
New York, New York
Born in Lima, Peru, and currently based in NYC, Juan José is a digital artist and researcher.
He creates, constructs, and builds an image nearly every day using a combination of new tools and technologies. He started his journey with more traditional forms of visual storytelling and has been spending the last years of his life exploring emerging tech.
ADOBE CREATE MAGAZINE
Reality-Defying Photo Composites Master the Impossible
Juan José Egúsquiza is based in Brooklyn, New York, but he spends much of his time as a man of the world. From Paris to San Francisco to Barcelona to Lucerne and beyond, the Lima, Peru-born multimedia artist and Adobe Creative Resident makes his way across the globe with his camera in hand. While exploring, he captures ordinary moments with a click, and these images become the basis for what he calls “Impossible Stories”: brain-bending composites that challenge the way we relate to and interpret our surroundings.
Takuma Nakata
2019 Resident
Kyoto, Japan
Takuma spent his Residency developing self-made hardware and software systems to achieve new visual experiences. By collaborating with artists from different fields, he applies digital aspects to physical spaces and lights up the world with visuals that people have never before experienced.
THE NEW INDIA EXPRESS
On the go: Bengaluru’s crowd is the subject for this Japanese designer
Inspired by the crowd in the subway, Takuma Nakata rightfully named his installation as Walk, at DesignUp, a festival that explores the integration of technology and design, which ended on Saturday. In the city for the festival, Nakata came up with this installation in collaboration with Patricia Reiners, a user interface designer whom he met during the Adobe Creative Resident programme.
Nadine Kolodziey
2018 Resident
Berlin, Germany
Nadine is an XR artist based in Frankfurt and Berlin. She works at the intersection of digital and analog with the goal of creating experiences rather than images. During her residency, she combined materials such as plastic and pixels to create work that was hand-cut, melted, or transformed into walkable augmented reality environments, and she invited the community to participate and engage with her artwork. She’s interested in new challenges, deep-diving in AR, and doing big-scale installations as well as projects in Japan in the future. Kolodziey worked for clients like Meta, Apple, Aerie, Google, Uber, and Youtube.
9 TO 5 MAC
Accessible augmented reality tools unlock new experiences for art, education, retail, more
In 2020, Nadine began a collaboration with Scavengar, an AR creation and scavenger hunt storytelling platform, to build “Walk Your Day.” In light of the pandemic, the experience encouraged viewers to get up and have a productive and mindful start to their day through motivating visuals.
Temi Coker
2018 Resident
Dallas, Texas
Temi Coker takes pleasure in utilizing colors, patterns, dimensions, and textures to showcase the diverse aspects of his Nigerian heritage, emphasizing that black is a beautiful canvas. His focus goes beyond creating mere artwork; he aims to design meaningful experiences that challenge conventional beauty standards and inspire introspection. Temi's artistic expressions embody a powerful movement that transcends the limitations of traditional beauty ideals.
SKILLSHARE
Digital Poster Design: Combining Images & Type for Powerful Visuals
The prompt is inspired by Temi’s own “Poster-a-Day” project, where he created nearly two dozen posters to celebrate beauty and individuals he admired, uniquely bringing together photography, imagery, and words in striking designs.
Craig Winslow
2016 Resident
Portland, Oregon
Craig spent his residency creating a large series of light installations around the world called Light Capsules. He worked on improving his technique and optimizing his process for projection-mapping while simultaneously going deeper into the details of sign painting and typography. He says the residency challenged him to get out of his comfort zone, tackle bigger projects, and explore new concepts — and he gained confidence in himself and his work.
CRAIG WINSLOW STUDIO
The trickiest design limitation was time. This needed to set up within seconds, play for 90 seconds, and then clear within seconds, properly clearing the court for tip-off. One concept quickly became a frontrunning idea: quickly deploy a cylinder to become a massive centerpiece canvas, augment it with 360º projection, then drop it.
Kelli Anderson
2015 Resident
Brooklyn, New York
Kelli spent her residency exploring the question, “What can paper do?” She tinkered with the material’s capacity to amplify sound, tell time, and work as a camera. She even took a few everyday tech objects and stripped them down to the bare minimum, rebuilding them in paper pop-up book form. ze text of the book explains how simple structures can tap into the physical world’s invisible forces to make surprisingly sophisticated things happen.
KELLIANDERSON.COM
Aiko Fukuda
2019 Resident
Tokyo, Japan
Aiko is a multidisciplinary artist and art director. During her Residency, she experimented with mixing analog and digital tools through Augmented Reality (AR) to create artworks based on her ongoing project “What’s possible with my illustrations?”. She offers online tutorials, sharing her knowledge to help build up others’ creative careers and to engage with the creative community. She is currently working on her magical AR popup book that she started during her Residency, which she hopes to publish in the near future.
COSMOPOLITAN JAPAN
“Let’s love things as they are”, Artist Aiko Fukuda’s thoughts on her work
The cover art for May was created by Aiko Fukuda, an illustrator and artist. While making use of her experience abroad, she is active in a wide range of stages such as domestic and foreign magazines, media, and advertisements. We followed her constantly taking on various challenges, such as the fusion of illustrations and digital art.
Octavia Bromell
2019 Resident
Sherborne, Dorset, U.K.
Octavia, also known as Tink, is an artist who creates joyful work using vivid colors and a whimsical view of the world. Also a mental health advocate, she creates art as therapy to process her anxiety and depression and encourages others to discover the power of being creative as a healing and uplifting part of everyday life. She is the author and illustrator of The Joyful Journal, and she both works with clients and runs a busy online shop selling her work from her shepherd's hut studio in the English countryside.
CREATIVE REBELS
Can Creativity Cure Depression?
In this podcast episode, Octavia Bromell shares her creative journey and discusses how she started making art and illustrations when struggling with anxiety and depression. Discover how she used creativity to stay positive and focused.
Anna Daviscourt
2018 Resident
Sacramento, California
Anna is an illustrator who speaks to audiences of all ages through her heartwarming stories. As a Resident, she gained agency representation and built an award-winning portfolio full of whimsical and diverse subjects. She also presented at events such as Adobe MAX, Lightbox Expo, and Adobe Live. She continues to explore the world of children’s publishing, collaborate with beloved brands, and share her knowledge through online education.
ADOBE MAX
Creating Your Best Work: Training Your Eyes to Edit
Anna Daviscourt shares her insights, trade secrets, and processes as part of the Drawing & Digital Painting speaker sessions at Adobe MAX 2019.
Temi Coker
2018 Resident
Dallas, Texas
Temi Coker takes pleasure in utilizing colors, patterns, dimensions, and textures to showcase the diverse aspects of his Nigerian heritage, emphasizing that black is a beautiful canvas. His focus goes beyond creating mere artwork; he aims to design meaningful experiences that challenge conventional beauty standards and inspire introspection. Temi's artistic expressions embody a powerful movement that transcends the limitations of traditional beauty ideals.
SKILLSHARE
Digital Poster Design: Combining Images & Type for Powerful Visuals
The prompt is inspired by Temi’s own “Poster-a-Day” project, where he created nearly two dozen posters to celebrate beauty and individuals he admired, uniquely bringing together photography, imagery, and words in striking designs.
Chelsea Burton
2017 Resident
Lakewood, Ohio
A graphic designer from Erie, Pennsylvania, with passions for street art, skateboard-smithing, and design, Chelsea spent her residency developing a line of longboards showcasing her artwork. She explored subjects including the public perception of female strength, individuality, sustainability, product quality, and the functional and accessible application of art, and she shared the stages of her process all the way through the production of her wood decks.
ADOBE CREATE MAGAZINE
On Deck: The Art of Making Skateboards
Skateboarding didn’t come naturally to Chelsea Burton. “I always wanted to do it but totally sucked,” the graphic designer says of early days trying to find her balance. Learning to snowboard in high school helped, and when she discovered longboards not long after, she fell in love with the way they mimicked the movement of gliding down frozen mountains.
Rosa Kammermeier
2017 Resident
Berlin, Germany
Rosa Kammermeier is a designer, and illustrator currently living in Berlin, Germany. Since her Residency, she shifted her focus from Lettering to Illustration but loves to combine all her passions together. Besides making art, she is a DJ and producer.
2019 International Women’s Day Google Doodle
Rosa Kammermeier’s graphic is one of 13 that can be seen around the world. According to Google, they revolve around the topic “Women who empower women.”
Syd Weiler
2016 Resident
Columbus, Ohio
Syd used their residency to build a creative community around their work where others could learn, share, and work alongside them. They explored the digital sticker store trend, and created the now-Facebook-infamous Trash Doves. They also took the time to figure out what kind of work they wanted to be making, and say they came away equipped to achieve their goals, maintain a productive career doing what they love, and contribute positivity and knowledge to the online creative community.
MEDIUM
In early 2017, the flailing purple bird named ‘Trash Dove’ briefly and violently overtook the internet in a case of extreme social media meme virality. Trash Doves are my creation, and this nearly ruined my life.
Becky Simpson
2015 Resident
Nashville, Tennessee
Becky used her residency to build and launch her online store, Chipper Things, a lifestyle and paper brand that celebrates play and delights in the ordinary. She began the year with her #100DaysOfGettingStarted project, in which she illustrated something new every day for three months. Much of that art can be found in Chipper Things and in dozens of stores across the U.S. and Canada. She also finished her second book, The Roommate Book, an illustrated guide to roommate life that was published by Andrews McMeel.
THE GREAT DISCONTENT
When it came time to choose a career path for college, I was torn between fashion design and graphic design. Then my mom asked me, “Do you like designing the clothes or drawing the clothes?” Game over. From that point on, I pursued graphic design and never looked back.
Hallease Narvaez
2021 Resident
Atlanta, Georgia & San Antonio, Texas
Hallease Narvaez, known simply as Hallease, is a filmmaker, digital storyteller, and creative entrepreneur based in Atlanta and San Antonio. She's produced original online content for PBS Digital Studios, Target, Google, and YouTube through her creative production company StumbleWell. She is a former YouTube Black Voices recipient. When she's not telling stories online and sparking creative conversations with fellow artists through her podcast "Tryna Be Somebody", she teaches everything she knows about storytelling via Skillshare. Her first comedy web series, "This Coulda Been An Email", was featured at the BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta and is available to watch on YouTube. She's currently working on producing and directing her first sci-fi/suspense short film "Separate The Wheat From The Chaff."
Adobe MAX 2022 session
Making Your Social Media Videos Pop with Color
Digital storyteller and former Adobe Creative Resident Hallease Narvaez helps you navigate the different color features built into Adobe Premiere Pro.
Shirin Nahvi
2021 Resident
Los Angeles, California
Shirin Nahvi, also known as Queen Shirin, is a Los Angeles-based creative with a drive for storytelling through content that is informative and empowering. Born and raised in Maryland, Shirin always had big dreams of working in the beauty industry, so in true Capricorn fashion, she built and pulled up her own seat at the table. Through her work, Shirin hopes to inspire others to be the best version of themselves.
SHOUTOUT LA
Shirin Nahvi | Creative Producer
We had the good fortune of connecting with Shirin Nahvi and we’ve shared our conversation.
Tanya Gupta
2021 Resident
New York City, New York
Tanya Gupta, also known as Guptanya, is a New York-based art director, multimedia artist, and former NASA engineer. In 2021, Gupta became the first Indian-American to join the Adobe Creative Residency, having since directed more than 100 social editorials for Tom Ford Beauty, Disney, and more. In 2022, Gupta was honored on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list under the Art & Style category, and her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Teen Vogue.
Forbes
30 under 30: North America 2023
Creating and designing the future of fashion and the arts.
Christina Poku
2020 Resident
London, U.K.
Christina creates staged scenes that fuse realities with colourful abstracted motifs. Her work utilizes a cross-disciplinary skillset with an unapologetic color palette to create impactful images and cinemagraphs. During her residency year, Christina shared her journey with fellow creatives via Instagram, TikTok, and more. Her long-term goal is to run a full-service photography studio and multidisciplinary practice that merges physical and virtual elements in digital images, and she looks forward to collaborating with 3D artists, set designers, and motion designers.
It's Nice That article
Christina Poku on how the Adobe Creative Residency programme is aiding her photography practice
A chat with the London-based photographer and art director Christina Poku on how the programme has benefitted her.
Amelie Satzger
2019 Resident
Munich, Germany
For her project, Seeing Music, Amelie is working with musicians to visualize their lyrics in the form of surreal artistic scenes. As she builds backgrounds and props, poses the musicians, and creates her artwork, she’s sharing her creative process from start to finish on social media. Her future plans include finding representation for her art and photography, creative-directing music videos and short films, and being hired by theaters, musicians, and actors to visualize their ideas in photos.
ADOBE CREATE MAGAZINE
Seeing Music with Amelie Satzger
For German photographer Amelie Satzger, music has always intertwined with the creative impulse. As a youth, she performed in a band with a good friend. When that partnership split, her imagination found refuge behind the lens of a camera.
Cyn Lagos
2019 Resident
Austin, Texas
Cyn Lagos has been remarked by global tech companies such as Skillshare, Google, and Instagram. Most notably, she was awarded the Adobe Creative Residency, where she cultivated the passions of aspiring artists by mentoring them in the techniques of visual language that advocate storytelling via a more empathic lens. Cyn has ventured into the world of video podcasting on YouTube where she advocates for your inner artist in "This is your artist speaking": a series of conversations discussing the techniques and current culture of the creative industry all while navigating her own artistic identity.
DAISIE
Establishing Yourself as a Photographer in 2023
Are you looking to establish yourself as a photographer in 2023? Join Cyn as she shares her insider knowledge on launching a professional career in the photography industry and making a name for yourself by the end of the year. She’ll share some tips and tricks and provide you with the tools needed to break into the photography market and maintain a versatile portfolio.
Tyler Babin
2019 Resident
New York, New York
Passionate about storytelling, Tyler is creating a video series that shares his experiences as an emerging artist alongside the experiences of established artists who are navigating their influence. He’s posting to Instagram and YouTube each day to bring the community into his creative process. In the future, he hopes to keep telling stories that help people feel less intimidated at the prospect of following their dreams.
YOUTUBE
Tyler Babin: The photographer behind Hasan Minhaj
People often ask, “Who’s the guy who shoots all your stuff?” And I never know how to answer because trying to articulate all the ways Tyler Babin is a creative powerhouse is impossible. You just need to see it for yourself.
Aaron Bernstein
2018 Resident
New York City, New York
Under the digital guise of “Hungry Boy,” Aaron creates photographs, animations, and short-form videos for clients in the food and lifestyle spaces. Originally coming from a fashion background, he seeks to create work that lives beyond one genre, focusing instead on the grey areas of art and style. Select clients include Adobe, Afterpay, Disney, Ferrero North America, Goldbelly, The Not Company, Smirnoff, Spotify, and Under Armour.
6SQST
The Urban Lens: ‘Manhattan Meltdown’ photo series aims to preserve and celebrate food of NYC
Photographer Aaron Bernstein was overwhelmed when he first moved to New York City for his career in fashion. One way to adjust to his new home was through different food experiences.
Laura Zalenga
2018 Resident
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Laura is a conceptual portrait photographer from Germany who’s based in Rotterdam. They spent their Residency year exploring a different genre of photography. For their documentary project “Beauty of Age,” they interviewed and took portraits of 35 elderly people. Their goal was to show that there is so much more to age than what society sees, including beauty, life wisdom, and first-hand knowledge of our history. Laura’s Residency motivated her to give more talks and workshops, and they plan to create more documentary series as well as conceptual work that includes socially important issues and social taboo topics.
FUBIZ MEDIA
Outstanding Portraits and Self-Portraits with Laura Zalenga
Between delicate fiction, dramatic surrealism and visual poetry, German-based artist Laura Zalenga’s photographs dissect human emotions with boldness. It’s sometimes gentle, sometimes raw or mysterious.
Aundre Larrow
2017 Resident
Brooklyn, New York
A photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, Aundre spent his residency working on projects that explored the daily lives, challenges, and perspectives of a diverse range of people throughout the U.S. His main project, Stories from Here, was a snapshot of America through the eyes of its residents. He captured photographs, made video content for the first time, and shared his process — all with the goal of making longer-form storytelling about unheard voices his primary work.
TEEN VOGUE
“Recognize That This Is a Cage”: Two Formerly Incarcerated Women Recall Life on the Inside
“I’m from New York City, born and raised. From sun up to sunset and back to sun up is always something to do. Always something to get into. There’s always some kind of scam or something going on.
Julia Nimke
2017 Resident
Berlin, Germany
A German photographer based in Berlin, Julia is passionate about nature, traveling, and unique types of cultural storytelling. She spent her residency exploring and documenting places and cultures in Europe that are tied to folk tales, and she tried out different photography styles, combined photos and videos into compelling stories, and shared what she learned with the community. Her goal was to inspire people to stay curious and open-minded when they experience unknown places and cultures.
YOUTUBE
The perfect spot for van enthusiasts, van life, and van lifestyle. Explore stories and reportages that spotlight extraordinary people and professionals.
Sara Dietschy
2016 Resident
Dallas, Texas
With over 900,000 subscribers on her self-titled channel, Sara creates and uploads docu-series, tech reviews and vlogs. Through her work, she explores the intersection of technology and creativity. Sara rocks the YouTube scene with her sincerity and a contagious zest for life.
YOUTUBE: Sara Dietschy
Ep. 12 Creative Spaces TV | How SCHMOYOHO “songifys” a political debate
A 13 episode docu-series shot/edited by Sara featuring the creative spaces of artists, the tools they create with, & their creative journey
Isabel Lea
2018 Resident
London, U.K.
Isabel is a Creative Director, Designer, and Researcher based in London who creates experimental digital and physical work on the themes of typography, culture, and design. She is co-founder of the creative agency ATYPICAL and is currently Design Researcher in Residence at The Design Museum. For her residency project, she explored typography and design as a tool to visualize language in more playful and experimental ways, something which she continues today with global residencies, talks, installations, and design projects.
ADOBE CREATE MAGAZINE
If you haven’t spent much time on that particular corner, you may not be familiar with the variable font format. It can reduce web font file sizes and give you loads of typographic variations.
Temi Coker
2018 Resident
Dallas, Texas
Temi Coker takes pleasure in utilizing colors, patterns, dimensions, and textures to showcase the diverse aspects of his Nigerian heritage, emphasizing that black is a beautiful canvas. His focus goes beyond creating mere artwork; he aims to design meaningful experiences that challenge conventional beauty standards and inspire introspection. Temi's artistic expressions embody a powerful movement that transcends the limitations of traditional beauty ideals.
SKILLSHARE
Digital Poster Design: Combining Images & Type for Powerful Visuals
The prompt is inspired by Temi’s own “Poster-a-Day” project, where he created nearly two dozen posters to celebrate beauty and individuals he admired, uniquely bringing together photography, imagery, and words in striking designs.
Jessica Bellamy
2017 Resident
Louisville, Kentucky
A designer from Louisville, Kentucky, Jessica uses data and personal narratives to create compelling visual stories that break down complex information for policy change. With a goal of driving social change, she partners with nonprofits and community groups to co-create infographics around social initiatives. She spent her residency working on new approaches to her creative process and design execution, and she taught the creative community how to equitably work with impacted communities and nonprofits.
COMMARTS
I’ve been an avid reader of research studies, news publications and social literature for most of my adult life, so I’m no stranger to dry, long reports and articles.
Rosa Kammermeier
2017 Resident
Berlin, Germany
Rosa Kammermeier is a designer, and illustrator currently living in Berlin, Germany. Since her Residency, she shifted her focus from Lettering to Illustration but loves to combine all her passions together. Besides making art, she is a DJ and producer.
2019 International Women’s Day Google Doodle
Rosa Kammermeier’s graphic is one of 13 that can be seen around the world. According to Google, they revolve around the topic “Women who empower women.”
Christine Herrin
2016 Resident
Berkeley, California
Christine spent her residency thinking of ways to use graphic design to encourage people to document their lives in creative and meaningful ways. She launched her first product, the Everyday Explorers Co. Travel Journal kit, and used it to test ideas and share her vision. She learned how to balance new ideas with the financial and practical limitations of building and growing a creative business. From that first journal, Christine built Everyday Explorers Co. into a successful brand of paper products that inspire documentation and creativity.
EVERYDAY EXPLORERS
We believe in endless exploration, constant curiosity, and taking the time to pause and document the details of our daily life.
Shea Rhim
2021 Resident
Atlanta, Georgia
Shea is a multi-disciplinary designer specializing in UX/UI and Web Design. He got his start creating Myspace layouts for friends and family and since then has worked across the sports, entertainment, and lifestyle industries. His work aims to combine his roots in studio art with technology and user-centered design thinking.
Maddy Beard
2020 Resident
Denver, Colorado
Maddy spent her residency exploring the intersection of mindfulness & tech, discovering ways we can design for digital well-being. Now, she is a freelance product designer and content creator focused on helping designers better their craft through intentional practice. Her YouTube channel features 'design with me' videos, fun re-designs, tutorials, and advice about the industry.
Skillshare
Intro to UX/UI for Graphic Designers
Whether you want to expand the services you can offer as a designer or transition into a new job entirely, UI/UX and product design skills are extremely advantageous. Many creatives like you know this, but have no idea where to start. Strategic designer, Maddy Beard, helps you start on your path towards honing these skills.
Julie Sanduski
2019 Resident
Seattle, Washington
Julie is passionate about the intersection of food, technology, and the circular economy. Previously at Microsoft and IDEO, Julie applied to the Creative Residency to explore how we could "design out" consumer food waste and combat climate change. While she was a Resident, she designed a series of food-waste ventures while sharing about Circular Design through speaking engagements and workshops. Since then, she’s worked with clients including Imperfect Foods and the NY Sanitation Foundation and was named a Circular Economy Pioneer by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Based in Seattle WA, she now works as a Senior Product Designer at Pioneer Square Labs, a Startup Studio & Venture Capital Fund.
BEHANCE
Good Neighbor food sharing app design
Good neighbor is a hyper-local food sharing platform that unites friends, neighbors, and strangers through the “feel good” of sharing food before throwing it away.
Patricia Reiners
2019 Resident
Berlin, Germany
As a freelance UX and innovation designer based in Berlin, Patricia Reiners is passionate about exploring future topics and emerging technologies such as AI, XR, and the metaverse. With a focus on the future of experience, Patricia consults clients on how to design innovative and engaging digital products and services. Patricia hosts a podcast called 'The Future of UX,' where they explore the latest trends and ideas in the field. With a background in UX design and innovation, Patricia brings a unique perspective to their work, combining cutting-edge technology with human-centered design principles
APPLE PODCASTS
Join Patricia Reiners as she sits down with experts and thought leaders from the world of tech and design to discuss the latest trends, insights, and best practices in the field of UX. Together, they explore how emerging technologies like AI, AR, VR, and the metaverse will impact user experience design.
Andrea Eppy
2018 Resident
Saint Louis, Missouri
Andrea Eppy is a Senior Product Designer passionate about creating sustainable and affordable communities that foster connections with each other and the environment. Her residency work focused on designing for automation, and she went on to continue related work on the AI/ML team at Apple. She has since discovered her love of restoring old homes and revitalizing downtrodden areas and is currently at a startup designing software to make the antiquated process of homebuilding efficient, transparent, and affordable for both builders and homeowners.
ADOBE CREATE MAGAZINE
Andrea Hock Shares Her App-Design Process
UX/UI designer and Adobe Creative Resident Andrea Hock talks us through the steps she took to create a tongue-scanning meal-automation app — from the initial idea and the refining of that idea, through research and making visual choices, and then on to wireframes and creating the final prototype.
Natalie Lew
2017 Resident
Brooklyn, New York
An interaction designer based in Brooklyn, New York, Natalie is passionate about the intersections of design and philosophy. As a resident, she created digital solutions in the spaces of professional networking, charitable giving (with DonorsChoose.org), public resource access, and educational news (with Newsela.com). She also created a notebook detailing her creative process to help make UX design more accessible to the creative community. She plans to work in interaction design for civic and urban planning in the future.
ADOBE BLOG
Passion, Timelines, and Curiosity: Design Insights
“Rather than tackle a single topic over the course of this year, I’m planning to approach a series of projects, testing out different research methodologies throughout,” she says.
