Real Moments Where My Lab Background Helped

There are many moments in my UX career where my medical background quietly surfaced:

• During usability tests, I observed subtle facial expressions or hesitation patterns — the kind of micro-behaviors I used to notice when analyzing test samples.

• While working on data-heavy dashboards, my comfort with precision and calibration helped ensure visual accuracy and data integrity.

• When defining research methodologies, I leaned on my training in hypothesis formulation and statistical validation.

• Even in design critiques, I brought a calm, evidence-based tone: “Let’s verify this with user data,” instead of “I just feel it’s better this way.”

In short, I still think like a laboratorist — but now I design like one too.

Do I encountered any challenge when transitioning?

Of course, it wasn’t all smooth.
Leaving the structured, rule-based world of healthcare for the open-ended world of design was uncomfortable.

In the lab, there’s one correct result. In UX, there are many possible answers, and they evolve with user behavior.

I had to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace creative failure, and value feedback over precision.
The UX world is messier — and that’s what makes it human.

But once I learned to see that ambiguity as a form of exploration rather than error, I realized it’s just another kind of experiment — an open-ended one.