PhageX
2025A smart-glasses and mobile concept that flags manipulation and intervenes before a scam escalates.
Role: UX Designer & Researcher
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Hi, I’m Yuanqian(Ayla). I design and prototype research-driven software experiences that make emerging technologies understandable, useful, and human.
My interests span human–computer interaction (HCI), design engineering, and data visualization, with a focus on helping people understand complex information and make informed decisions.
Selected Projects
Research, design & making.
EchoBloom
2025A mobile experience that turns fragments of commute noise into personal music clips and reactive visual memories.
Role: Creative Coder & Product Designer
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The Reading Pensieve
2025A projection companion that adds notes and memory cues to paper books.
Role: Emerging Experience Designer
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Tutela
2025A discreet IBS patch combining stress sensing with heat and pneumatic relief.
Role: Industrial & Interaction Designer
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Research, culture & data.
From Following to Discovery
2025A critical study of Xiaohongshu’s discovery feed, exploring algorithmic visibility, social comparison, and how users negotiate audience control.
Role: Research & Critical Analysis
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The Evolution of Commemoration
2026Text mining Scottish gravestone inscriptions to explore changing commemorative language and women’s visibility through family relationships.
Role: Text Mining & Data Visualization
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Where Is My Body?
2022A collaborative stop-motion animation created in London in summer 2022, following a bodyless dragon's whimsical journey through the city in search of his missing parts, only to discover he had been whole all along.
Role: Collaborative animation
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LingGou EduBot
2024A modular educational robot for expressive, low-barrier STEAM learning.
Role: Product Manager
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