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Nicci Yin is a designer and artist working in interactive and print mediums. Her current interests are researching alternative interfaces, dissecting the language of everyday technology, and digital collaborative techniques.
As an interaction designer she has 7+ years experience across client-facing projects and emerging tech, most recently working with researchers in XR and AI at Meta Reality Labs.
She received her MFA at ArtCenter College of Design in Media Design Practices and her BA at Barnard College.
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`POEM`
Poem written with Python for a School for Poetic Computation class. Source text includes class notes, Slack messages with friends, and a selection of favorite emojis.
Archive
Media Design Practices Website
Website and information architecture redesign for Media Design Practices Graduate Department at ArtCenter. I worked with Prudence Rees-Lee who developed the site.
A+A+A
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.
Brooks Run Bra Finder
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.
10^-1 10^0 10^1 10^2
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.
Surface Tension
A graduate research project uses diverse design approaches to explore how scanning, photogrammetry, and touchscreen interactions mediate our relationship between bodies and interfaces. Exhibited at Peripheral Forms (2017).
Propositions
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.
Westopia
“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).
Pivot Points
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. This project was developed with Nan Tsai for the Microsoft Design Expo.
Animistic Collaborators
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.
Workshops & Events
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