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EMILY LIU combines software, hardware, and a sensitivity to materials to build novel methods of interfacing with our environments. Her designs provoke more meaningful conversations and more beautiful relationships with our technology, communities, and future.

A community-centered approach to news consumption, designed @ the NYT

product design, blue-sky thinking, dynamic interfaces, social networks

An extraterrestrial communication device, telling real-time generated deep time stories.

tangible MR, novel storytelling, creative direction, generative AI

An “Invocal Reality” where everyday objects become vessels for communication and storytelling.

tangible user interfaces, invoked computing

A MIRROR THAT TALKS BACK, hosting conversations about reflection, memories, imaginations, and life's biggest secrets.

conversational ai, digital navigation methods, sensors, assistive technology

A set of projects on “hiccups”, designing details for analog, digital, and future methods of cross-spatial socialization.

UI/UX, natural user interfaces, social digital experiences, augmented reality

An ANTI-TAKE ON MIXED REALITY to engage us further with the built environment

speculative interfaces, UI/UX for MR, wearables

Print media explorations of CHARMING TANGIBLE INTERACTIONS ranging from a story with a light-activated hidden message to that one time I grew mold in my design studio.

visual design, storytelling

yours, emily. august 2023