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Meng
Ming

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

I love learning about the relationships we hold with our tools, others, and ourselves. In the meantime, I am enjoying explorations with the wonderful team at the Design Lab of UCSD.

︎Email

mengmingluo1@gmail.com

︎Resume

Resume

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1 • Product Design

Screenshots of our Squarespace redesign, framed by Macbooks.

Product Design

Reimagining Squarespace for Accessibility

Design Frontiers Designathon • First Place • Spring 2021

Promoting accessibility through a well-known content management system (CMS).

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.

Dexcom's Diabetes Management Applications

Dexcom's Diabetes Management Applications

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.

Screenshot of my browser extension.

Web Dev + Product Design

Intentive

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

Screenshot of the upper half of my poster design.

Visual Design

Lecture Series Poster Design

October 16 - 18, 2020
Exploring information heirarchy through layout and typography.
Gif of the conference design, featuring an interactive code sketch.

Gif of the conference design, featuring an interactive code sketch.

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

Artifacts I create outside of design! Everything below is self-directed unless otherwise stated.

Girl dragging her finger on a wall, with code art graphics trailing behind her finger.

Girl dragging her finger on a wall, with code art graphics trailing behind her finger.

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.
Girl highlighting a book quote with her finger, light trailing behind her finger.

Girl highlighting a book quote with her finger, light trailing behind her finger.

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.

A small mechanical toy with stop motion animations inside.

A small mechanical toy with stop motion animations inside.

Physical Computing, Education

Showbox: a Mechanical Theatre

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

Screenshot of a slide from the "playful computing" workshop

Education

Playful Computing Workshop

A workshop to introduce highschoolers to Human-Computer Interaction through the lens of creative computing.

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3 • Other Odds and Ends

Art + creative computing. Find more here.

A toy I made out of paper and paperclips. Looks like a small running box.

Physical

Paper Mechanica

Prototyping expressive papercrafts with paperclips
A gif of one of my code arts: a dancing polyhedron.

A gif of one of my code arts: a dancing polyhedron.

HTML/CSS, p5.js
HTML Letters

Writings bundled in p5.js

A screenshot of my first html website, with a fish swimming in the middle.

A screenshot of my first html website, with a fish swimming in the middle.

HTML/CSS

mengluo3.github.io

My first site, for sentimental reasons.
An illustration with a man sitting in a river full of letters.

An illustration with a man sitting in a river full of letters.

Illustration
For a Moment Like a Lonely Island

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

An illustration with a gorilla lying in a couch, an ape stepping from a set of human jaws, and a man running in a suit and tie.

An illustration with a gorilla lying in a couch, an ape stepping from a set of human jaws, and a man running in a suit and tie.

Illustration

Evolved to Exercise

Inspired by Scientific Article: “Evolved to Exercise” by Herman Pontzer A shadow sculpture of a man's face, looking somber.

A shadow sculpture of a man's face, looking somber.

Shadow Sculpture

Duplicitous

Playing around with shadows.

DUMBO

Nice to meet you :) I'm Dumbo, the elephant that likes to draw.

Dumbo says it feels great to meet new friends. To demonstrate his enthusiasm, he'd like to draw his favorite shape for you — circles!