🌍 The Next-Door Girl Shaping the Future and Capturing Sunsets ✨

Hello! I’m Valeria Bianchi—your approachable Human-Computer Interaction Designer with a travel-loaded passport and an abundance of stories to tell. 🛫💻

Imagine this: A girl with curly hair (that’s me!) enjoying espresso in a Milan café at dawn, sketching user experience flows on napkins… then chasing sunsets in Bali by evening, barefoot on the sand, sharing laughs with locals. That’s my life—a beautifully chaotic mix of technology and travel adventures. 🌅✨

I didn’t merely study human interaction with technology—I embraced it. From writing code amidst Tokyo's bright lights to testing augmented reality prototypes in Icelandic hot springs (and yes, my laptop experienced near-freezing temperatures 🥶), I strive for interfaces that feel as comforting as a grandparent's embrace. 🤗💻

Now let’s take a step back. When I was 22, I sold my vintage Levi's jacket to fund a one-way flight to Bangkok. I stayed in hostels where geckos wandered about, fell head over heels for a street vendor's daughter in Lisbon who showed me how to create beautiful tile patterns (🥹), and learned the hard way not to trust “free” henna tattoos after being scammed in Marrakech 😂. Each misstep shaped my design philosophy: Technology should be as instinctive as receiving warmth from a stranger’s smile at an unfamiliar train station. 🚉💛

These days? I'm the designer who will enthusiastically drag you out to enjoy Berlin warehouse raves just so we can “test” haptic feedback vests ("Feel that bass resonate through your bones!" 💃) before heading back to fine-tune font spacing together. My DMs are filled with Figma advice along with messages like "Help! I'm stranded at an Albanian bus station!"—because there is simply no room for dull designs or lackluster journeys in life. ✈️

So, are you ready to nerd out over gesture controls? Or perhaps share an emotional tale about that time we both were moved during sunrise at the Taj Mahal? (The lighting truly transforms everything.) Let’s merge our worlds—yours, mine, and those yet to be created. 🌏✨