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About

Meng

Ming

Greetings! I’m Mengming: product designer and HCI student. 🤸‍

I aspire to contribute to the design of digital mediums, small or large, that help others create. In the meantime, I am enjoying explorations with the wonderful team at the Design Lab of UCSD.

︎Email

mengmingluo1@gmail.com

︎Resume

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1 • Product Design

User Research + Product Design

Designing for Diabetes Management

Industry • Dexcom Continuous Glucose Monitoring • Fall 2019

Mobile experiences empowering users to request sensor replacements on their own terms.

Web Development + Interaction Design

ChronoViz Web

Research Apprentice • Design Lab • Spring 2020 (Ongoing)

A tool for “highlighting” and annotating ranges of time-based media, for ethnographic research.

Web Dev + Product Design

Intentive

Side Project • Ongoing
A tiny browser extension to combat internet distraction.

Lecture Series Poster Design

October 16 - 18, 2020
Exploring information heirarchy through layout and typography.

Leadership + UX Design

ACM UCSD Conference 2021

Fall 2020 - Present
Leading the Design team behind UCSD’s first major Association for Computing Machinery Conference.

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2 • Experiments in Computing

Some stuff I play around with outside of design! Everything below is self-directed unless otherwise stated.

Wizard-of-Oz Prototyping, Creative Computing (p5.js)

Interactive ‘Smart’ Light

Turning any surface into a tangible user interface. Note: this is a SIMULATION prototype, not the real thing. Alas, unfortunately I am not a wizard.

Wizard-of-Oz Prototyping
‘Smart’ Highlight

Inspired by Berg Studios, using paper to prototype a digital highlight for physical books. Note: this too is a SIMULATION prototype.

Physical Computing, Education

Showbox: a Mechanical Theatre

An educational toy for kids to fill with their own stop-motion animations.

Playful Computing Workshop

A workshop to introduce highschoolers to Human-Computer Interaction through the lens of creative computing. Workshop demo here.
Still under development

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3 • Other Odds and Ends

Mostly art + creative computing. There’s a loooot more where that came from.

Paper Mechanica

Prototyping gifts with paper and paperclips

HTML/CSS, p5.js
HTML Letters

Ramblings bundled in p5.js

mengluo3.github.io

My first site, for sentimental reasons.

Illustration
For a Moment Like a Lonely Island

llustration for Hengtee Lim’s short story, “For a Moment Like a Lonely Island”.

Evolved to Exercise

Inspired by Scientific Article: “Evolved to Exercise” by Herman Pontzer

Shadow Sculpture

Duplicitous

Playing around with shadows.

Copyright ©2019 Mengming Luo

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