I'm Lydia Muwanga and I am an artist. I love to think and create. Whether the medium be color, elements for the best user experience or business model, my definite aim is to innovate to make the world better.

After earning a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering, I spent four months in Florence, Italy studying studio art with an emphasis in drawing. I had the opportunity to develop my artistry even more. Afterward, I decided to move back to the Silicon Valley area and I worked at an engineering company. I developed my sensibilities and discovered back-end engineering is not for me, but rather designing more on the front end where human needs are met. I also got involved with web 2.0 start-up groups and my interests began to lean more to the online space. Opportunities kept popping up at work to design applications using Visual Basic, and I absolutely loved what I was doing! I love the idea of designing in 2D and ’4D’ (my thought on designing experiences) and still applying my artistic side to designing beautiful interfaces. I’m blessed to attend the University of Michigan as a GEM Engineering fellow sponsored by Intel.