My early training is in architecture, a career that has allowed me to travel across the world, designing buildings of all sizes and typologies. I’m a designer at heart and whilst it has been a fulfilling journey, I’ve also always had a ‘thing’ for tech. Growing up in the DOS era, I have childhood memories of how I became familiar with the PC... by accidentally formatting the hard drive of my brother's computer.

Even though I like tech, I also remain very low tech, and I like to think that this analog part of me has been important in the development of Inclr. Inclr is a software that doesn’t seek to be a quick and temporary solution, but rather it tries to speak to the heart and walks at a slower pace.

In 2015, I began tinkering with iOS code. I saw how architecture had become increasingly more digital and I became interested in what scripts can do. By the end of that year, I discovered there is one aspect of coding that I love... somehow, coding felt meditative, like being in a quiet "other world", away from the mundane daily life. In some ways, coding allowed me to enter a similar mental zone to when I design architecture. I was coding every night and every lunch break, any chance I could get I’d be on the laptop. It was creative and exciting.

One day I created circular menu. It was intended as a navigation menu for a design news app I was creating at time. I thought to myself, “Circles are an interesting shape. Singular dimensioned - defined by a point and a radius. Architecturally they are difficult inclosures, but... what if... what if I put life into it?” And when I meant Life, I meant everything made up of life, information, space, feeling, freedom. If everything was bundled into interactive packages, it would represent Life better than what we currently have, singular data points with a search engine. This is the moment Inclr was born.