Vicky Yan

Product Designer /
Human-AI Interaction

I'm a multidisciplinary designer exploring how AI and emerging technologies can reshape the way people interact with products and environments.
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Selected work / 2022–2025

Interfaces between
people, machines
and environments.

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01You / Me / We / ItTangible HCI installation2025

A café installation that translates the live temperature of shared drinks into breathing, collective visualizations of social warmth.

Research · Prototyping · Spatial thinking
You / Me / We / It portfolio overview
You / Me / We / It process and design details
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02Embodied CognitionInteractive installation2025

A communal installation where participants contribute responsive digital “blobs,” making individual presence, collective engagement, and even moments of non-participation visible within a shared environment.

Research · Prototyping · Spatial thinking
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03Sketch-a-homeHuman-AI spatial interface2025

An embodied home-design interface where hand gestures arrange furniture-like forms in a shared projected space, then AI translates those spatial sketches into vivid domestic environments.

Research · Prototyping · Spatial thinking
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04Block / SketchHuman-AI design tool2025

A playful loop from hand-assembled body blocks to a custom 3D scanner, point clouds, and real-time AI-generated architectural possibilities.

Research · Prototyping · Spatial thinking
Block / Sketch portfolio overview
Block / Sketch process and design details
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05BlockModular object system2025

A family of person-like modular blocks uses square joints, circular bindings, and asymmetrical legs to support both Cartesian stacking and freer angled connections—turning each individual unit into a growing physical community.

Research · Prototyping · Spatial thinking
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Bonus study / 2025

Troitsky Bridge

Material efficiency through interlocking triangular force distribution.

Troitsky Bridge prototype process
Approach

I listen closely, reduce noise, and design from the human out.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Design, 2026–present

University of Toronto

BA in Architectural Studies
Minor in Mathematics
Class of 2026