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 most recently worked as a Research Designer at Reality Labs Research at Meta, where she developed deep expertise in UX for contextual AI systems, and was a Y12 Incubator Member at NEW INC. 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.

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RECENT UPDATES

14.08.26

The NEW INC Y12 Art & Code cohort published a microsite on Rhizome. Check out Edge Cases, my piece, and Rhizome's blog post.

08.08.26

I hosted HTML Day in Seattle with a lovely group of people. HTML Day is a global day for writing HTML together - learn more at HTML Energy.

03.07.26

I spoke on a panel (New Neighbors @ Processing Community Day Taiwan) with amazing creative coders and artists on local and global exchange between Taiwan and our neighbors, organized by SpOnAct: livestream and recording.

28.06.26

I taught 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.

20.05.26

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 of all the presentations here and link to my deck here.

08.12.25

Stephanie Cedeño and I wrote an essay in the Are.na Annual vol. 7 about reflection pools and their function as spectacle, contemplation, and a metaphor for AI. Edited by Meg Miller and Amirio Freeman.

13.09.25

My friends and I organized this multimedia, multisensory ART POTLUCK 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.