Vicky

Experiencing Tech, Art, and Design in San Francisco Bay Area.
Currently doing lots of cool things at Adobe.

I’m deeply devoted to nurturing the Design Community.

Whether mentoring the next generation, captivating audiences through talks, or leading hands-on workshops, I thrive in creating spaces where students and aspiring product designers can learn, grow, and ignite their creative potential.

This section below is out of date and is currently being worked on. Stayed tune!

Speaking

Adobe Intern Summit: Adobe Fresco’s How It’s Made 2022

Technical Speaking Podcast with Harrison Wheeler 2021

Wonsulting July Speaker Series: Unheard Stories from Global Leaders 2020

Delta CX Podcast, episode: Why Neumorphism is bad for Accessibility 2020

AIHack: a student-run hackathon for high school females (non-binary & trans-inclusive) 2020

Techshare Project: an organization introducing underprivileged children to STEM 2020

Design Interns Check-in Panel, the largest Design Intern Panels 2020

Instagram take-over AMA for Girl Genius’s Women in Art and Design Week 2020

San Jose State University: Strategies for Job Search Success Panel

San Jose State Univeristy: Intro to UX Design & Landing a UX Internship workshops

Mentoring

Adobe x UC San Diego Virtual Career Fair 2022

HackThis, a hackathon hosted by Hackillinois 2020

InternGrind, a fun Hackathon hosted by Hackguild 2020

Hack3, an online Hackathon for high school students 2020

Wonsulting Project  2020

Judging

CreateSC University of California Design Competition 2021 & 2022

Riptide: Design & Tech Summit’s Pitch Competition 2021

HAccess, a 5-days Accessibility-focused Hackathon 2020

Design at UC Santa Barbara’s Spring Design Challenge 2020

NHACK, a hackathon for middle school and high school students 2020

Awards

Grand Prize IEEE Mobile Application Development

Grand Prize 1APP Mobile App Competition

Silver Award and Bronze Award in Mobile App Category at 2020 Indigo Design Award

Iron Award at A’Design Competition in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design

First place SAP Design-a-thon

Winner of the 24th Brandathon, designed for Local Civics

Winner of the 26th Brandathon, designed for The Ember Company

World’s 38th Best Designer in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design, ranked by Design Classifications DAC

First place Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Big Ad Challenge

Publications

Hosted events