Connect your background to your approach.
My background in teaching and product design really shapes how I approach learning experience design, because both disciplines are fundamentally about iteration and understanding the end user.
From 18 years in the classroom, I learned how to read learners in real time, to adjust, scaffold, and respond to what people actually need in the moment, not just what was planned. That experience taught me that no learning experience ever survives contact with real learners unchanged.
On the product side, I’ve learned to think in versions. Things are never really “finished.” They’re tested, refined, and improved based on how people actually use them. That’s something I apply directly to learning design as well: build, test, gather feedback, improve.
So when I design learning experiences, I’m always holding both perspectives at once: the human side from teaching, and the iterative, feedback-driven side from product design. The result is experiences that are flexible, responsive, and built to evolve.