About Me

I'm Connor Nolan, a product/UX designer graduating from the University of Michigan in December 2026, studying User Experience Design and Research with a minor in Human-Centered AI. Through coursework, an internship at Epic Systems, and student organizations like Tech for Social Good, Reach Consulting Group, and Michigan Open UX, I've gotten to practice user research and design for real clients and real constraints.

This experience has shaped how I think about the field. Accessibility gets overlooked more than people like to admit, usually in favor of a clean, polished look that looks great at a glance but doesn't actually help anyone use the product. To me, that's backwards. The real core of UX is empowering people to navigate a product and succeed at what they came to do, not just making something look good. That's also why I don't think AI can replace real UX designers: a tool can generate a polished layout, but it can't sit with a user, watch where they get stuck, and understand why. That judgment is the job.