How I became a UX UI designer with no experience or design degree.

At a very young age, age 10 I started my first Anime fan-based website called Saiyanz Web. This was during the dial-up internet days which most people don’t know what that is or hadn’t experienced it. Don’t worry that’s a good thing.

Everything for my website was created by me — The design, code and programming. This gave me the opportunity to learn how a website works. I was fascinated! Saiyanz Web had free downloads for movies, tv shows and mangas (comics), eventually, I added other popular Anime and that generated over 40,000 visits per day with a loyal fan base. Every day I would spend hours and hours making the site better. How? By learning a new code, or making it more user-friendly, new design skills on Adobe Photoshop (5.5), finding ways to be searchable on Yahoo, and more.

Dragonball Z fans; Vegeta is my favourite character.

I knew at that age my goal was to convert my hobby into a career. That’s exactly what I did.

Fast forward — During my college days, I started freelancing because I needed it to gain experience. The best way to do this was to contact companies for small design gigs, intern roles, and help local shops.