Melbourne, and deeper into AI
Moved to Melbourne with my two boys and leaned further into AI, expanding into augmented AI workflows and the craft of AI evaluation and iteration.
Still the kid chasing cool things, just with much sharper tools.
About me
The short version lives on my CV. It runs newest first, so the further you scroll, the more personal it gets.
Leading AI product design
Joined pAI Squared and led design on Te Heke Mai, an AI career platform, owning the prompt engineering alongside the UX.
Where design and AI stopped being two separate skills for me.
Started mentoring designers
Began mentoring junior UX designers on the side with Mission Ready, the kind of guidance I'd have loved earlier in my own career.
Senior, and design systems at scale
Joined Valocity as a Senior Designer, worked with and mentored two junior designers, and built a design system adopted across four product teams in New Zealand, Australia, and India.
My first design system
At Qirous, I built my first ever design system for our client Spark IoT, and designed a brand new dashboard for their users.
My first UX role
Started at EMA, where I shaped the member conference experience for one of New Zealand's largest industry bodies.
Leapt into UX
Completed a UX bootcamp, redesigned a mental wellbeing app, and designed The Re-Creator, an upcycling marketplace, from the ground up.
Turns out UX wasn't much of a stretch for a designer and artist.
Going digital, first whispers of UX
Back to design, but digital this time: brand identities, landing pages, emails, and the first time I heard people talk about this thing called UX.
My artist years
Spent three years on a Creative Technologies degree chasing life as an emerging artist, exploring the boundary between viewer and digital art, and exhibiting a range of installations.
The seed of everything I now call UX: learning to design for the person on the other side.
My graphic design years
Started my career as a graphic designer doing newspapers, magazines, business cards, and every kind of printed thing, becoming an Adobe Suite master and a relentless pixel perfector along the way.
From commerce to design
Finished high school, started a Commerce degree, then bailed in second year because it wasn't me, and switched to a year of communication design to chase the dream of making cool things.
The first time I chose what I loved over what was sensible.
Moved to New Zealand
Moved from China to New Zealand on my own to study, a long way from home and the start of everything that followed.
The kid who wanted to make cool things
Born in China, dreaming of being a scientist or inventor. Really, just someone who wanted to make cool things.
That dream never changed. Design simply became how I make them.
Dad to two boys and the family cook
They're a tough audience, but they keep coming back for seconds.