✨ Art as Emotional UX
Designing Catharsis through Creative Practice
🧠🎨 This page is where my academic training, artistic expression, and UX mindset collide.
It began as a simple zine — a small act of creative resistance, made with colored pencils and courage — but it evolved into a user-centered artifact of onboarding, empowerment, and emotional design.
In this case study, I explore how art-making functions as emotional UX by:
🔐 Helping users (and artists) build trust in themselves
🧭 Guiding people through new tools and vulnerable learning
🎯 Creating low-stakes, high-impact entry points into creativity
💬 This isn't just about aesthetics — it's about accessibility, agency, and catharsis.
From my hands-on art classes to future interactive tools, this work is rooted in the belief that emotional engagement isn’t a distraction — it is the experience.
🖍️ Colored Pencils Are NOT Boring
Exploring depth, burnishing, and emotional texture—without rules or rulers.
✏️ Art Experimentation: A Class for the Curious
A judgment-free zone for weird ideas, loose lines, and supply fluency.
🎨 Paints Are ALL the Same
A hands-on lab in chroma, flow, and rebellion against color elitism.
“This isn’t about turning people into artists.
It’s about helping people feel brave enough to try.”