About

My name is 👨🏻‍💻 Kei. I am an Experience Designer currently based in Cologne, Germany. I work predominantly for designing human-centred digital services & products, with attention to the social connections & systems behind.

In my spare time, I read about 📚📰 socio-politics, think about 🕹🔀 interactions, do 🎋✍🏼 literary explorations, 🌀👋🏼 throw pots, and take care of 🌵 plants. You can check out some of my thoughts on my public notes.

I speak English, French, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, and GIF; also a bit of German, Portuguese, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Write me via email, LinkedIn, Mastodon or Bluesky.

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I have worked in 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong and 🇺🇸 the USA in the creative industry, education, and on the customer front.

Currently, I work in Design Ops and B2B Product Design for the online marketplace Kaufland e-commerce by day.

Some companies/organisations for which I did creative work include:

Esprit TÜV Rheinland Deutsche Telekom BurdaForward Leybold Panasonic Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud Stadtwerke München Institut Carnot de l’Éducation Deutsche Post Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération (la Fing) Cozy Cloud Lyon museums European Union Academic Programme Hong Kong UniKlinik Köln

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I like crossing different disciplines to discover new insights and applying ideas back to design. I believe wider perspectives help including people and creating environments/products which can connect them & enable possibilities.

My core skills include:

experience & interface design information architecture interaction design user/desk research user-centred design service design systems design prototyping user testing strategy design sprint & workshops

I am also fond of:

social design & technologies social issue analysis cognitive science information design data visualisation open-source co-creation knowledge sharing contemporary art & literature art-house cinema

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My background crosses design, socio-politics and digital humanities. I am an alumnus of École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Hong Kong Baptist University and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

I wrote my master’s thesis on UX of voice assistants, where I explored how to design for anticipatory assistance based on usage environments’ context. You can read it online. I also gave a guest lecture at MacEwan University’s Design Studies about UX in voice user interface (DESN 341).

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