Nicci Yin is a designer working across mediums with a critical interest in emerging technologies and in the language and ephemera of the internet. Currently thinking about alternative interfaes and how to practice artistic research in community, otherwise designing for XR/AI at Meta Reality Labs.

Site, work, and thinking are in perpetual development ✨ [browse by: research, client, illustration, writing]

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🫧 Currently brewing new ideas and projects; in the meantime, here is some previous work—
    BROOKS RUN BRA FINDER
    2019
    A responsive browser-based experience for learning about, discovering, and purchasing Brooks Run Bras based on best match. I was freelancing under Shore and worked on UX design and testing, visual design, and creative direction of assets.
    SURFACE TENSION
    2018
    A year-long research project uses diverse design approaches to explore how scanning, photogrammetry, and touchscreen interactions mediate our relationship between bodies and interfaces.

      ANIMISTIC COLLABORATORS
      2017
      A collection of ideas about how virtual, AI agents could work with people in augmented reality, especially in creative contexts. How might multiple, non-anthropomorphic agents have distinct personalities and expertise and feel embodied?

      I worked on Hypertext Swarm, a swarm of AIs that scan and analyze artwork to help curators make connections and formulate new ideas across contexts.

      Full project research site here.
      AI FICTIONS: NETWORKED COLLUDING
      2017
      A design fiction about ubiquitous sensing throughout the smart city and smart home. We imagined a networked community of AI-agents who secretly control the neighborhood and used prototyping and performative storytelling to demonstrate how data is sensed, passed, and leaked between devices.

      Collaboration with Stephanie Cedeño
      Presented at Ars Electronica
      HTTP://WEB.DESIGN.PROJECTS
      2016–2020
      Some examples of freelance design work involving information architecture, UX and visual design.

      Clients:
      Media Design Practices
      A+A+A
      10^-1 10^0 10^1 10^2
      2019
      A series of drawings created for the March 2019 issue of the Pacifica Literary Review upon invitation; a collaboration between two friends and Google Drive; a collection of scenes about scales of water.
      PROPOSITIONS
      2016
      A self-pulished journal started with my cohort during my time at ArtCenter Media Design Practices. This was a way to construct and participate in our own unique critical discourse around design and technology, while having fun. While no longer ongoing, it has a special place in my .