Call me Hiva,

I'm a designer who thinks in systems. Before I sketch anything, I need to understand what I'm actually solving and who I'm solving it for. The problem has to be clear before the solution can be.

I'm drawn to complexity. The problems that interest me most are the ones that aren't immediately obvious, where the real issue is buried under layers of workflow, roles, and competing needs. I want to contribute something meaningful to a project, but I also want to come out the other side having learned something I didn't know going in.

At the core, I'm a creative person and a problem solver. I tend to notice the aspects of an issue that aren't obvious to everyone else: the edge case, the contradiction, the assumption nobody has questioned. Design, to me, is one of the few disciplines where that way of seeing things actually matters. Where catching the right detail can make someone's experience meaningfully easier. That's what I'm here for.