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Welcome to my crappy site. I’m trying to upgrade it to version 2.0, to showcase more of myself and my stuff. If you run into some 🚧 construction sites, please don’t be surprised, come back every week to see updates. (Or not, if you’re a bot.)

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I’m Miao, a user experience designer with 6+ years of experience and a solid background in design. I craft digital experiences that flow.


Currently I’m in Berlin. However, sometimes I run away from German winter for some vitamin D. Then you can find me in Shenzhen, Bangkok, or other sunnier places.


Maybe one day I will put a selfie here.


I’m working at Law & Innovation, a Berlin start-up company. We are a small team background in legal, tech, and design. We are building a novel product ecosystem from 0 to 1. Prior, I was an in-house designer at uCloudlink, a telecommunication company in Shenzhen. I led the GlocalMe mobile applications and their derivatives, I also had hands-on experience with web and SaaS.


I was involved in some short-term projects too. At Fraunhofer ISI, I developed a web tool, that provides personalised recommendations and explanations for optimising household energy systems. I consulted on user-centred design approaches to the high performance comupting team at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. I also assessed and identified UX and cultural issues for Ableton ’s checkout flows together with great people from Favorite Medium.


Other than above, being heavily benefited from generous designers, I also want to contribute to open source community. Recently, I’ve been working on Giraffe, a Figma plugin for exporting frames as GIFs, with @Raphael. He’s the real code master, I’m more like vibe coding. Together with him, we are building Cow Defense as well, a small tower defense game. I’m responsible for all the visual elements. Meanwhile, I’ve just started to manage @Miaoblabla, an Instagram account where I try to collect relevant psychology and behaviourism theories for designers. This will be forever an on-going project.

Some of my works


Consenter

The first officially recognised consent management service in Europe

GlocalMe®

Help users buy data, manage devices to stay connected easily with the GlocalMe mobile WiFi

Filling the information gap

A design case study of a recommender for home energy system

Erinnern Sie sich noch?

Erinnern Sie sich noch? A storytelling game with Pepper for older adults memory training

Heuristics

Evaluate the checkout flow of Ableton's website for APEC markets

Enable “trust”

When it comes to autonomous driving