I trained as an architect for six years before I moved to AI products.
At fifteen I was already sketching buildings instead of studying for the gaokao.
- Temper, Dify (LangGenius), Curio Digital Therapeutics, Infloww, Heygen, Eaton Corporation, HIL Architects
- ColdMe (co-founder, 2021), COIL Connect for Virtual Exchange, Capital Area District Libraries, Erb Family Foundation
- M.S. Information (HCI), University of Michigan, 2022–2025B.Eng. Architecture, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, 2016–2022
- AI UX, Agent workflows, Information architecture, Product strategy, Design systems, UX research, Usability testing, Frontend prototyping, Design-to-code
- Figma, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Python
- English, Mandarin (native)
- 2013 – 2019
Alongside the sketches I was in volunteer building workshops in Hangzhou. By 2017 I was being paid to design spaces and art pieces for my father's business associates. At eighteen a local design studio took me on for my first professional project. In 2016 I got into architecture school in Xi'an.
In 2019 I went part-time at HIL Architects, as a junior architect and a teaching assistant. I learned there that cost and construction decide more of a building than the drawing does. The title didn't get me much on its own, so I kept finding my own clients through school.
- 2020 – 2022
The pandemic kept me at home for most of those three years, working on UI and UX projects with partners in a few Chinese cities. One was a WeChat mini-program for a neighbourhood in Xi'an's Muslim Quarter, a project my university ran with the city. In 2021 I co-founded ColdMe as its designer, and with a few people from a film community I built and launched an app. I finished the B.Eng. in 2022.
- 2022 – now
From then on all of the work was on screens. In the summer of 2022 I interned at Eaton on an IoT configuration tool for airport clients, then started the master's in HCI at the University of Michigan. The next summer, at Heygen, I re-architected the AI video editor around the script.
My thesis, Echo, was an LLM-driven future-self avatar for everyday health habits. I piloted it with 8 people over 16 days, then ran a 12-day deployment with 36. I finished the degree in 2025.
In 2024, at Infloww, the product was a chat assistant for a B2B CRM, and most of the design turned out to be the work around the model. With the prompt engineers I designed the payment and messaging tools for the cases where it's wrong.
From late 2024 I was the founding product designer at Curio Digital Therapeutics, on MamaLift and MenoLift, two FDA-cleared products. The design system, the information architecture and a feature called the Achievement Garden all went through clinical review.
In 2026 I joined Dify, an AI application platform, as their AI product designer. I designed Droploft, a team knowledge base; Syncless, a multi-agent workplace concept; and the Dify Enterprise main app. After that I spent three months on contract at Temper, inside the production codebase, on the design-token architecture and the lint checkers that enforce it.