Onwards + Upwards

It’s been a few months since my last post, and for good reason. My personal and professional life have both been turned upside down (in a good way) and I’m finding myself busier and more content than ever. First, I decided to leave IBM’s User Experience group and pursue working at a smaller, experience-focused agency.

Since I attended a few choice sessions at South by Southwest earlier this year, I knew my time at IBM was almost up and that this year would bring about a career change. Fortune favoured me and I’ve recently started up at Toronto-based experience design agency, Teehan+Lax, who I’ve always admired and am humbled by all the talented folks I get to work with here. Their visual aesthetic very much aligns with my own and am feeling really inspired here.

The next thing is my living situation – last year I moved into a my new condo in the East end of Toronto, and while I really loved the place after putting a ton of design work into it, a number of factors led me to the decision to sell the condo and move in with some friends. Just last week I moved in to a beautiful house in the West end with two amazing friends, and I’m really loving it. There’s something about living in a house that makes it much more comfortable than a box in the sky, and living with people certainly adds to that as well.

So this year has seen no shortage of change and transformation for me. I’m looking forward to an amazing 2010 and hope to be doing lots of travel and learning along the way!