Nicole has a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Afterwords, she spent about 3 years in a Chicago agency called Merge, working on branding and website design. Because she wanted to explore the world of tech, she decided to move out to the Bay Area, where she freelanced at Google, Sephora, IDEO and a number of agencies and start-ups. She eventually took a position as a UI/UX designer in Amsterdam, where she currently resides. She eventually quit the tech world in 2020 to be a full-time freelancer and return to her passion—art and graphic design. Her goal is to work with ethically minded companies that want to build artistic and creative brands.