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I’m Sharon! Thanks for stopping by :)
I’m Sharon! Thanks for stopping by :)
About me
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I recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Data Science. (Go Bears! 🐻)
I’m passionate about user-centric design and embracing interdisciplinary approaches to digital spaces to cultivate community and tell good stories.
Currently, I’m hopping around the sweetest spots in SoCal — libraries and cafes galore! Since returning to my hometown, I’ve taken it upon myself to explore the delights of sunny California as I seek out full-time roles.
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My perfect day?
A rainy day in with a good book and good company. Maybe it’s the California in me, but my most mundane fantasies always involve a storm.
My free time?
Drawing order from chaos — my spare hours are usually spent documenting my day, tracking my habits and finances, writing notes on my hobbies.
When not lost in my pages, you can find me dabbling in translation work (Okay, sorry, that’s still notebook-related). I also enjoy cooking, re-reading my favorite shoujo manga, collecting kitschy stationery (try clicking around this page!), and practicing archery.
What’ve I been up to?
Experiences and involvements
Looking for my next role 👀
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Product Designer • ParrotPrep.ai
2024 - Present, Freelance
Project Manager • Warner Bros. Entertainment
2023, Contract
Product Designer • HiFive Tutoring
2023, Contract
Product Designer • HuffPost
2022, Contract
VP Design, Webdev Associate • EthiCAL Apparel 🡕
2021 - 2024, Registered student org.
Marketing Associate • Innovative Design 🡕
2022, Registered student org.
Development Assistant • UC Berkeley School of Public Health
2022 - 2023
What brought me here?
Design philosophy
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My work orbits around this central notion: marrying my interdisciplinary roots with my passion for product, so that I may design experiences with impact and intention.
Mix that up and drop it in an oven for four years and you get one Sharon Jihn — someone particularly fascinated by the ways stories morph beneath the weight of perspectives ... and how these perspectives are shaped through a world of invisible indicators and our interpretations thereof.
Pivoting to product
It took me a little over half my college career to discover a latent passion for product and design – major kudos to DATA8 🡕 – and the importance of effective story-telling in both.
My studies introduced me to indexicality, tenses, syntactical composition, words, as the stones by which an individual may build a message to relay meaning to another.
In today’s increasingly digital landscape, I saw an opportunity to translate these principles into the realm of product — even as I trade in paragraphs for pixels, the crux of the operation remains that selfsame goal: communication and connection.
Guided by years of evidence-driven iteration (those essays don’t write themselves!), I’ve found a place in product design by asking questions, embracing research, listening to users, and distilling it all into digestible insights for my designs. The principles of good story-telling transcend disciplinary boundaries. And good story-telling is good design.
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