Nicci Yin
(she/her)
I am a designer and artist exploring embodied interfaces and more playful and collaborative applications of technology.
As an interaction designer I have 7+ years experience across client-facing projects and emerging tech, most recently working on XR and AI at Meta Reality Labs. My full CV is here.
Feel free to email me and see what I'm up to on Instagram or Are.na.
2020
Website and information architecture redesign for Media Design Practices Graduate Department at ArtCenter. I worked with Prudence Rees-Lee who developed the site.
2020
A+A+A is a women-led, multidisciplinary design studio committed to making places more inclusive, collaborative, and joyful. They wanted a lightweight Squarespace website to manage their portfolio and client work.
2019
A responsive browser-based experience for discovering 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.
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.
2017–2018
A graduate research project uses diverse design approaches to explore how scanning, photogrammetry, and touchscreen interactions mediate our relationship between bodies and interfaces.
2017
Pivot Points is a speculative proposal for how to design social interactions through shared virtual assets in MR. Users scan in objects from "real reality" that is shareable in VR and connects spaces together. Developed with Nan Tsai.
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.
Exhibit, 2018
Transformed research project into a website for #cyborgs, an online exhibit of digital media.
Exhibit, 2017
“Westopia” is a project curated by Parasite 2.0, focusing on the theme of the utopia. I contributed a flag design capturing the visual iconography of the blue dot / current location as a marker of place in a digital sea (center flag, above image).
Talk, 2017
Presented with Nan Tsai at the Microsoft Design Expo.
Talk, 2017
A talk at the Post-Internet Cities conference at the MAAT Portugal, presenting speculative projects about AI and ML at neighborhood scales.
Exhibit, 2017
Installation of our collaborative work Networked Colluding at Ars Electronica about solving a neighborhood mystery through a network of IoT devices. Collaboration with Stephanie Marie Cedeño.
Workshop, 2025
A "poem" written with Python for a School for Poetic Computation class that explores the idea of social scripts and conditional, generative art practices. Inspired by Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, Sol Lewitt, and others, to create a set of instructions for my class to create a collaborative drawing that is different each time.
Pub, 2017–2018
A self-published 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 <3.