First professional role

I arrived at UNSJ's Institute of Informatics feeling like a student. I left feeling the same, but with something different inside. I don't know if that's growing or simply accumulating experience. Probably both.

The work was building interfaces for educational video games. The end users were kids, but I almost never saw them. My interaction was with university researchers and teachers who knew those users much better than I did. That was new: designing for someone you can't see directly, trusting what others tell you about them.

The first time something I designed was used by a person was there. I didn't see it in person, but I knew it was happening.

What stayed with me most from that year wasn't technical. It was understanding that accessibility isn't a feature you add at the end or a checkbox you tick. When users have cognitive or motor difficulties, a poorly made design decision isn't a bug, it's a barrier for a person. That changes how you think about every component you build.

I worked with React, with multidisciplinary teams where there were profiles very different from mine and in a university context that had its own ways of moving. Finding the rhythm wasn't always easy. But it was the first place where what I did had consequences beyond a grade or a personal project.