I hope to be a 🧚‍♀️ bright presence.

I’m Ningli, an UX Designer / Media creator focused on future interactions and human values.

My path moves across art, design and product, with a few identity shifts along the way. Looking back, the work has kept circling one question: as technology reshapes expression, relationships and everyday life, how might we preserve and deepen the emotions, trust and connections that matter most to people?

When I lived and studied at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, I first felt the force of human-centered critical thinking, and the possibility of design as a way to intervene in society. The sincerity and affective power of art, together with the creativity of design, made me want to build products that are genuinely meaningful for people.

My graduate project Face to Face was an early exploration of this direction. It combined moving image, real-time facial sensing and emotion recognition to examine digital identity, self-presentation and human-machine relationships.

That project made something clearer for me: I am not interested in technology for its own sake, but in how technology changes how people feel, and how we might see ourselves again through it.

I value sincerity, kindness and inclusion. I also believe in organic growth, long-term collaboration and building things together. In product and interaction work, I tend to return first to the human situation: why people feel confused, when they feel understood, how trust is formed, and whether a system can help people express and act more naturally.

Outside work, I often solo travel into unknown places, and return to myself through yoga, Buddhism, the outdoors and reflection. I hope to work with creative teams to explore future-facing interactions, product forms and warmer relationships between people and technology.