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Hi, I'm Lawrence.

designer / problem solver / pixel craftsman

As a product designer who navigates complex problem spaces and business requirements to drive real impact, I design to create more comfortable (and less rage-inducing) spaces for people to live, work, and interact with others.

5+

years of UX design experience

Unlocking human-AI collaboration to boost patient care for millions

At 3M, I led the end-to-end UX design and research for a suite of collaborative applications used by clinicians to reduce the time needed to go back and revise medical notes every day - and increase quality face-to-face time with patients.

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Boredom to motivation: designing a game for student mindfulness

After workshopping app ideas for our public school district client to better teach people skills to high schoolers, I designed a social game (now being sold by my team as a side hustle!) that was proven in its ability to boost learning motivation.

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Modernizing a search page to increase efficiency by 60%

I revamped the UX and built a modern design system for the world's largest collection of social science data, enabling social science researchers to more efficiently find and discover key information.

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About me

Lawrence

Lvl 3

Data scientist turned designer

I started off in data science, focusing on machine learning and AI, but later developed a passion for design. My dev background helps me balance blue-sky design ideation with a healthy dose of appreciation for technical constraints.

Third culture kid

Growing up, I felt wedged in between American or Chinese culture. I found a sense of belonging online, which helped me contextualize my cultural self-identity. I would love to one day help design for a similar sense of community.

Lifelong learner

I strive for constant self-improvement and learning. In 2022, I went back to school to further explore my interests in service design and behavioral psychology at CMU's design program, despite already having a full time UX job.

Digital bridge builder

My design career has been focused around breaking down siloes and creating better connections between people, whether that be between work collaborators, doctors and patients, or students and their communities.

Idea innovator

I like to come up with ideas and thoughtful questions to challenge norms. Embracing ambiguity and healthy constraints fuels my passion for innovation, getting messy with design experimentation to try new things.

Ethical practitioner

It is important to me that I feel like I am contributing to social good in some way. While ethics are subjective, I believe that it is important to reflect on potential ethical pitfalls of a solution, especially with up-and-coming technology like AI.

Game nerd

If the design of this portfolio hasn't tipped you off by now, I'm a huge nerd for video game aesthetics - but also games in general. I studied gamification in grad school, and am a strong believer in the power of play for elevating design in cool ways.

Hobby cook

I love cooking and saving recipes from different cultures in my spare time. I'm confident in my ability to cook up a mean eggs benedict or hong shao rou pork belly, which I'd be happy to serve if you're a guest at my apartment :)

Pixel artist

Art is the most compelling form of communication and self expression to me. I'm far from being the best artist, but I do doodle some pixel art on my iPad for fun in my spare time. You can check out my art here!

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