If you’ve ever tried to sleep in a hospital, you know that it doesn’t make for an ideal sleeping environment. However, sleep is too precious to waste for many children in hospitals— sleep has varying levels of impact on many different health outcomes, and lack of it can be disastrous.

As SpellBound's User Experience Designer, my primary job is to advocate for users — all users, of every type and kind. But one of the most overlooked groups of diverse users across technology is neurodivergent people and more specifically, autistic people. Because autism can look so different in the spectrum from person to person, it's sometimes hard to understand what users really need. This is why my personal superpowers are so important in advocating for users of all types: I'm autistic.