Yedan is an interaction designer and experience prototyper currently be visiting student at MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Group. Prior to that, she was studying Interaction Design (MFA) at Umeå Institute of Design (Sweden). As an interaction design researcher, she worked at Think Tank Team in Samsung Research America, and Designit Copenhagen and Baidu Institute of Deep Learning.
She has been exploring how to augment object, environment and human body with intelligent to reshape how people can engage, understand, learn and create. She has a great passion in adding the sense of poetry and playfulness to technology through novel integrations of the physical and digital interaction.
Professional Experience
2017.11 - Present
2016.04 - 2017.04
2015.03 - 2015.09
2014.09 - 2015.01
2014.06 - 2015.09
2012.06 - 2012.09
Creative Director, BMW Group Designworks
Visiting Researcher, MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Group
HCI Intern, Think Tank Team, Samsung Research America (Mountain View, USA)
User Experience Design Intern, Designit (Copenhagen, Denmark)
HCI Intern, Baidu Institute of Deep Learning (Beijing, China)
Interaction Design Intern, Tencent (Shenzhen, China)
Education Experience
Interaction Design MFA, Umeå Institute of Design (Sweden)
Industrial Design B.Eng., Zhejiang University (China)
2013.09 - 2017.06
2009.09 - 2013.06
Exhibitions and Events
2017.11
2017.09
2017.06
2017.04
2017.01
2016.12
(Upcoming) Global Grab Show – Dubai Design Week, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
(Upcoming) Fast Company’s Innovation Festival, NYC
Sliperiet Gallery - UID17' Design Exhibition, Sweden
Virtual Arcade – Tribeca Film Festival, Manhattan, NY
New Frontier – Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
HumLabX - Umeå University, Sweden
Awards and Honors
2017
2017
2017
2014
2014
2014
2013
2012
FastCompany Design Awards, Experimental Category, Honorable Mention
FastCompany Design Awards, Student Category, Honorable Mention
Core77 Design Awards, Interaction Design, Student Run Up
Core77 Design Awards, Interaction Design, Honorable Mention
Core77 Design Awards, Soft Goods, Honorable Mention
RedDot Design Awards
OzCHI Student Challenge, Winner
RedDot Design Awards
Honors
2016-17
2015-16
2013-17
2012
MIT Art Council Grant Recipient
Brita-Stina Norderstedt Grants Recipient
Umeå University Full Scholarship
China's National Scholarship