Stacy
Hampton

I'm a UX and product designer from Michigan who likes untangling complicated things until they feel obvious.

I started out in graphic design, and somewhere between layouts and brand work I got stuck on a different question: why do some things feel effortless to use while others make you work for it? That question is what moved me into UX.

Before design became my full-time focus, I spent years in operations and care work — production floors, schedules, processes people had to follow under real pressure. When a step is confusing there, it isn't a minor annoyance; it's someone's bad shift. That's still how I look at products. Structure matters as much as surface, and the messy problems are the fun ones.

I like carrying a product the whole way: define the problem, shape the structure, design the interface, prototype it, and build enough of it to find out whether the idea actually holds up.

Outside of design, I'm usually making something with my Cricut, playing video games, hanging out with friends, or losing quarters at an arcade.