Hien began her career in art working as an assistant to a landscape mural artist where she excelled at painting trees and tiny people. She moved on to explore many forms of design and studied at the University of the Pacific. With her communications degree, she developed a love for creating provocative, memorable imagery. She is refining her self-taught mastery in many different web programming languages and claims that she is so passionate about design that she describes her dreams with Pantone colors.