About me

I’m melissa,

an architect, trend forecaster, and unexpected design curator. I was born in Costa Rica, where my love for design began early, pure, instinctive, and full of emotion. For years, I followed the traditional path of architecture, until I realized something was missing. I had lost the feeling that first made me fall in love with design: the emotion, the curiosity, the human side of it all.

So I decided to look forward. I pursued a Master’s in Interior Design focused on the Future and Trends, and later moved to Paris, a city that taught me how design, culture, and emotion constantly shape one another.

At first, I started sharing my passion as a hobby, making TikToks about unexpected design. I never planned for it to grow, but it did, my small experiment turned into a community of over 36,000 people who see the world through the same curious lens. That’s when I realized there was something deeper there: a new way to talk about design, to feel it, and to predict it.

I’ve been following trends for years, not just with intuition, but with data. Here, I share why something becomes trendy, how it moves, and when it’s your moment to join, or when it’s already fading. Think of this space as your insider map to what’s coming next, before everyone else sees it.

My work lives in the space between design, culture, and feeling, reading signals before they become obvious and turning them into stories that matter. If design once felt like something I’d lost, today it feels like something I’ve finally redefined.