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Design Portfolio

DIGITAL DESIGN

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Innovated new features for the Spotify mobile app, with the aim of emotionally capturing listeners' profound music experiences!

✔️ Product Research

✔️ Creativity + Innovation

✔️ Wireframing + Prototyping

✔️ UI + UX Design | Linked Above

✔️ Mini Pitch | View Here

Contributed meaningful design work that helped shape an early-stage startup. Revamped the previous app version’s calendar, sign-up, onboarding, and feedback pages. Illustrated various graphics and built a design system.

✔️ User + Market Research 

✔️ Wireframing + Prototyping | View Here

✔️ UI + UX Design | Linked Above

✔️ Graphic Design | View Here
✔️ Marketing + Growth Strategies

✔️ Cross-Team Collaboration

Empathized with individuals from the dyslexic population through user studies, interviews, and testing to identify an accessibility need and prototype a design solution. In this case, a visual notes summary tool to help readers better digest and remember information from dense bodies of text. 

✔️ User Research (Ethnographies) + Interviews

✔️ Medium-Fidelity Prototype | View Here

✔️ User Study Design (Wizard of Oz) | View Here

✔️ Hi-Fidelity Website Prototype | Linked Above

✔️ User Testing (using the Hi-Fi prototype)

✔️ Final Presentation | View Here

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Embarked on intensive design process to create mobile app aimed at simplifying the dining-out experience while accounting for people's unique dietary needs and/or logistic constraints. Check out the website (linked above) for in-depth and step-by-step work!

✔️ Needfinding Interviews

✔️ Concept Sketching + Storyboarding

✔️ Experience Prototypes (for User Testing)

✔️ Low-Fidelity Prototype

✔️ Medium-Fidelity Prototype 

✔️ High-Fidelity Functional App

✔️ Heuristic Evaluations (Nielsen's)

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VISUAL DESIGN

CYBERSPACe

JUNKYARD

Explored the exciting possibilities of augmented reality design by producing an immersive hyper-realistic experience (“Cyberspace Junkyard”) centered around the history & nostalgia of the early Internet up to its present-day dominance and eerie amalgamation into actual technologies.

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HOLIDAY
Charcuterie

Dove into the scientific and mathematical intricacies behind creating synthetic computer-generated images.

Applied concepts such as ray tracing, UV mapping and texturing, depth of field, reflection, and transmission to create all scene elements from scratch.

3d models

— created in Fusion & Blender

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Drawings

— concept sketches, by hand

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PHYSICAL DESIGN

NEST & Rest

— storage and prop for utensils

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PROCESSES

✔️ CAD Modeling

✔️ CAM Simulation

✔️ CNC Milling

✔️ Woodworking

LOtus

— aesthetic and functional incense burner

PROCESSES

✔️ CAD Modeling

✔️ Machining (Lathe & Mill)

✔️ Sheet Metal Forming
(Waterjet, Bending, Welding)

✔️ Woodworking

✔️ Finishing (Hand Sanding, Beadblasting, Spray Painting)

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Silver pendant

— symbol of my time in college & what's yet to come

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PROCESSES

✔️ CAD Modeling

✔️ 3D Wax Printing

✔️ Lost Wax Investment Casting

 ✔️ Filing and Sanding

LNY AUTOMATon

— festive Lunar New Year scene, featuring a dragon dance 

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