ABOUT
Arit A. Amana
"My mission is to make users feel seen and valued."
As a UX Designer, my mission is to make users feel seen and valued through elegant, functional design.
I've been mastering the building blocks of User Experience for the past 15 years: Research, Customer Care, Service Quality, Operations, Sales and Communications. And I've been doing it globally in myriad industries (manufacturing, finance, education, non-profit...). What's great is I'm only getting better. Formally adding UX to my toolkit is one of the best choices I've made.
My favorite pre-pandemic activities were:
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Advising startups to craft more user-centric stories, as a volunteer at MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund;
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Leading a Creative Writing Group at my local library and café;
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Cooking (or thinking about cooking) plant-based and fish-based dishes (as a vegan-who-eats-fish, aka a non-lacto-ovo-pescatarian);
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Trying to improve my stamina and endurance (and counteract the effects of the point above) by running around my neighborhood.
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The pandemic activity I'm most proud of is getting comfortable with discomfort.