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Hi, I'm Sharon.
Thanks for stopping by!

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 exploring the intersection of health and technology with InBody.

(more) about me!

The non-essentials

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 the 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, and practicing archery.

experiences & involvements

What've I been up to?

Always open to opportunity!

What's next?

HiFive Tutoring

Product designer

2023, Contract

InBody USA

↗

Product designer

2025 - Present

HuffPost

Product designer

2022, Contract

ParrotPrep.ai

Product designer

2024 - 2025, Freelance

EthiCAL Apparel

↗

VP Design, Web dev. associate

2021 - 2024

Warner Bros. Ent.

Project Manager

2023, Contract

Innovative Design

↗

Marketing associate

2022, Registered student org.

my design philosophy

What brought me here?

As an English major, I spent my undergraduate years navigating stories by way of theory. Though my diploma reads Bachelor of Arts in English (and Minor in Data Science!), I’d outline my education broadly as such: a tablespoon of history, a cup of literary science, two cups of critical writing, and a dash of linguistics.

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.

As an English major, I spent my undergraduate years navigating stories by way of theory. Though my diploma reads Bachelor of Arts in English (and Minor in Data Science!), I’d outline my education broadly as such: a tablespoon of history, a cup of literary science, two cups of critical writing, and a dash of linguistics.

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.

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 technology — 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.

Sincerely,

Sharon ◡̈

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