Nicci Yin

Nicci Yin is an interaction designer and artist, and runs SHIFT CMD, a research & design practice whose projects ask what else computing could feel like. She creates conceptual art about software and produces prototypes, videos, writing, and workshops that defamiliarize everyday computational behavior.

She is a Y12 Incubator Member at NEW INC and most recently works as a Research Designer at Reality Labs Research at Meta, where she developed deep expertise in UX for contextual AI systems. Her work has been presented internationally at Ars Electronica, MAAT, and Abierto Mexicano de Diseño, and published in the Are.na Annual and The HTML Review.

Selected Projects

SHIFT CMD

★ Current

Studio organizing my research and making. New work, projects, and writing at shift-cmd.com.

Afterimages

2026

A website for The HTML Review Spring 2026 issue that revists camera roll memories as tiles of blue, exploring translation between image, color, and text, and between an experience and its record, my recall and machine interpretation.

Reflections

Are.na Annual: Pools 2026

A conversational essay written with Stephanie Marie Cedeño about reflection pools and their function as spectacle, contemplation, and a metaphor for AI. Edited by Meg Miller and Amirio Freeman.

WikiGarden

2025

A location-based phone game for WikiGameJam 2025 that turns the world's knowledge into a living garden. Players collect “seeds” from Wikipedia article locations, and watch them blossom into unique flowers.

Welcome to Formosa

2025

A video essay reflecting on Animal Crossing, COVID, and the care/control of islands using personal "found footage" screenshots between 2020–2024.

ART POTLUCK

Exhibit, 2025

My friends and I organized this multimedia, multisensory art pop-up at The Grocery. We envisioned this as a gathering of friends and the work that we make, and created a space to share projects with each other and our communities.

Networked Colluding @ Ars Electronica

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.

RECENT UPDATES

06/2026 — Upcoming workshop @ Index

I'll be teaching Tending the Webpage at the end of June at Index Greenpoint, a workshop for the design- and code-curious to build tools in HTML/CSS/JS for tending and growing a shared webpage together. More info soon.

05/20/2026 — Talk @ Claude Code Taipei

I gave a talk at a Claude Meetup hosted by Natalie Feng Lin for artists and designers: myself and three artists shared our process and reflections working with Claude in our projects. Write-up in Chinese to all the presentations here and link to my deck here.

Links & Contact

hello@nicciyin.com
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