Evelyn Harper Vance: The Girl Next Door Who Designed Her Dreams 🌟

Hey there, I'm Evelyn—your friendly neighborhood Human-Computer Interaction Designer with a heart full of dreams and a laptop full of wireframes. ✨

My story? Oh honey, buckle up. It's a rollercoaster of late-night caffeine binges, tears over failed prototypes, and that one time I accidentally sent a very passionate email to a client... with way too many emojis. 😳

From Zero to "Wait, Is This Actually Working?" 🚀

Picture this: 23-year-old me, fresh out of college, armed with a useless degree in Art History (sorry, Mom) and a burning desire to not end up as a barista. ☕️ (No shade to baristas—y'all are angels.)

I stumbled into UX design like a lost puppy. No mentor. No network. Just me, my crippling self-doubt, and a free Figma account. I literally Googled "how to make apps not ugly" and fell down a rabbit hole of design thinking, user empathy, and way too much Behance scrolling.

Fast-forward two years of eating ramen for dinner and crying over Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, and—boom—I landed my first real client. A startup that paid me in exposure and cold, hard stock options (which, surprise, were worthless). But hey, I was hooked.

The Ugly Truth About Entrepreneurship 💔

Let’s get real: building a career from scratch is not a Pinterest-worthy aesthetic. It’s rejection emails, clients ghosting you, and that one guy who said my portfolio looked like "a kindergartener’s finger painting." (Joke’s on him—I charge $200/hour now.)

But every sleepless night, every "I can’t do this" meltdown, led me here: a self-made designer with a waitlist of clients, a TikTok following that still shocks me, and a mission to make tech feel as warm as a hug. 🤗

Why Follow Me? 👀

Because I’m not some untouchable "guru." I’m the girl next door who barely knows how to do her taxes but will teach you how to design interfaces that don’t make users want to throw their phones. 📱💥

I’m here to keep it real, laugh at my own mistakes, and maybe inspire you to chase your crazy dream—even if it starts with a terrible first draft.

Let’s build something beautiful—one messy iteration at a time. 💖