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  <title>Patrick H. Thomas | Portfolio</title>
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            <h1 class="me2">About Me</h1>

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          <h2 id="who-Head">Who are you??</h2>
          <p>Like any good grade school student I put down more ink doodling in the margins than by taking actual notes, but I was lucky enough to have my distracted scribblings evolve into a more concrete appreciation for artsy stuff. By high school I was carrying my camera everywhere, along with loose dreams of one day becoming a Nat Geo photographer. After high school I spent time studying foundational subjects like figure drawing and color theory. As I spent more time away from the viewfinder, I started to see how the same satisfaction I received from processing a photograph could be achieved by constructing compositions in all forms of media.
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                While this was most likely a healthy revelation for my artistic identity, my financial identity didn’t necessarily have the time to wait around for the end result. Ultimately I found myself managing a bottle shop and curating their beer collection. I then started brewing with a small brewpub and shortly thereafter began a 7 year stint of commercial brewing and startup brewery consulting. Throughout that time I was often creating marketing content or illustrating beer labels, and I spent additional time freelancing packaging rebrands, product photography, and logo design. Eventually I realized that my background in the arts was catching up to me. After speaking with a developer friend about UX design I started teaching myself some front end code in my free time. After months of unguided learning, I began the process of properly solidifying my new skillset through an immersive UX apprenticeship with bloc.io.
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          <h2 id="why-Head">Yeah, then what?</h2>
            <p>I fully understand that some might see the transition from beer production to UX design as a strange trajectory. Getting paid to drink beer is an ideal scenario, right? In short, sort of. For one, I’m not super keen on drinking on the job, and a brewer’s job is generally far too demanding for the intermittent pint anyway. Regardless, my departure from brewing was less about a distaste for making beer, and more related to an unmet desire to create things that really make a difference in a person’s daily life. Striving for good UX means employing a high degree of empathy, which means no matter how small the problem may seem, the solution mean a lot for a certain user.

            My prior experience has taught me that the operations behind the curtain must be precise and purpose driven in order for a product to meet the consumer’s expectations, and the lessons I learned upon delving into UX immediately echoed those sentiments. I’ve come to realize the importance of balancing relentless creative output and reliance upon a set of rigid, proven principles. Striking this balance allows me as a designer to pour my energy in a project but do so with efficiency, and that’s something I thoroughly enjoy doing.

           If you haven’t already, feel free to check out my featured work, or connect with me at any of the links below.
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