THE
BIOGR
APHY

of a girl name shirley t (that’s me)

Former Engineer turned designer, Lover of beautiful photography, drinker of ginger tea, User Interface design nerd, and obsessed with websites.

I’m almost embarrassed to admit that at 33-years-old I was still earning less than $50K (you read that right…less than a college intern) and getting nowhere closer to making more until I got pregnant with my second child. That was the wake-up call I needed to finally go from being an underpaid employee to profitably self-employed.

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I taught myself graphic design, branding, website, and UI design in less than a year.

While trying to build a website for a side hustle idea, I became a little (well a lot) obsessed with website design. So much so, that I decided to transition from engineering to design, and create a whole business around designing websites for people who were equally obsessed with having a fancy, yet functional website.

I specialize in modernizing dated WordPress websites using no-code tools for small businesses and organizations that operate lean while massively scaling their brand presence online. My clients may come from a variety of different backgrounds, but they all walk away with a brag-worthy website that they feel empowered to tweak, edit and manage on their own.

Ski

LLS

Elementor

Webflow

Branding

Notion

adobe-xd

Adobe XD

Figma

UI Design

HTML

css

My humble beginnings started when I dropped out of grad school…

2011/2012

2013/2014

2015/2016

2017/2018

2019/2020

2021/2022