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EMILY LIU excels in bringing a perspective of storytelling, detail, and finesse to product design. Her designs provoke more meaningful conversations and more beautiful relationships with our communities and future, building novel methods of interfacing with our environments.

Empowering kids with generative-AI storytelling

from zero to one

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

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

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

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

conversational ai, digital navigation methods, sensors, assistive technology

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

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

speculative interfaces, UI/UX for MR, wearables

yours, emily. july 2024