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As a product designer interested in making the world feel more human and personal, I spend my days designing more comfortable (and less rage-inducing) digital spaces for people to live, work, and interact with others.
years of UX design experience
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After workshopping app ideas for our public school district client to better teach people skills to high schoolers, I designed an award winning social game (now sold commercially) rooted in behavioral psychology to boost student mindfulness.
mindful goal setting
At 3M, I led the end-to-end UX design and research for collaborative applications used by clinicians to reduce the tedious busywork of going back to revise medical notes every day - and increase quality human face-to-face time with patients.
increase in dx capture
clinicians giving better care
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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 discover information and identify areas of interest.
saved on average
Net Promoter Score
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I started off with a programming background, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the design of this portfolio hasn't tipped you off by now, I'm a sucker for video game aesthetics - but also for 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.
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 :)
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!