Portfolio Studio About

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EMILY LIU excels in bringing a perspective of storytelling, impact, and finesse to product design.

She builds novel methods of interfacing with our environments, provoking more meaningful conversations and more beautiful relationships with our communities and future.

PRODUCT DESIGN — human-centered, goal-driven, robust services

Empowering kids with generative-AI storytelling

from zero to one

Story @the NYT

product design, mobile/desktop, design systems

BESPOKE INTERACTION — dreamful, narrative-driven, imaginations

CMU Design Capstone: re-physicalizing a more communal and conversational news routine

bespoke UX, digital-physical product design, materials + form development

An airport service adding love, connection, and conversation to the departure experience

web development, misc. fabrication, soft buttons

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

tangible user interfaces, invoked computing

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

tangible MR, novel storytelling, creative direction, generative AI

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

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. february 2025