Speaker 2
You're listening to The Omni Show, where we connect with the amazing communities surrounding the Omni Group's award-winning products. My name is Andrew J. Mason, and today we have Leah Ferguson talking about how she uses OmniFocus. Welcome everybody to this episode of The Omni Show. Today we have Leah Ferguson, a Canadian designer who creates experiences in the digital and built environments through wayfinding and information architecture. In her spare time, she helps people navigate the world of personal knowledge management. Leah, thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 1
Thanks so much for having me, Andrew.
Speaker 2
Well Leah, I know we just gave everybody the thumbnail sketch of your career. Do you mind breaking it down just a little bit more? What else would you tell somebody who isn't familiar with this
Speaker 1
space? Well, experience to sign this a bit of a broad thing, and especially talking to an audience who's probably more familiar with the digital side. I deal with user experience in the built environment. So things like how you're feeling through art installations or those cool graphic walls you see in tech companies, but my specialty has been wayfinding, and essentially it's how you find your way through space. I've spent most of my career doing navigation at airports, such as the Harvey Milk Terminal at San Francisco International Airport, Calgary International Airport, and the Jewel at Changi Airport in Singapore. And so I get into the weeds and the details. My whole goal as a designer, even though I've trained as a visual designer, my goal is to take the complexities of the built environment and your flow through an environment. And basically I bear the burden of that to be able to make it a more pleasant experience for you. So that way you're able to find your playing on time or be able to enjoy yourself at a shop or things like that, and on the side of that I just kind of nerd out about how we get through space and how we get through information.