Lucy Liu

NYU's student-led design studio, mentored by Adobe designers · Client: Chance AI · New York, NY

• Lead a four-designer team on a semester-long engagement for Chance AI, a vision-language-model startup, owning the brief and the weekly client meetings.
• Redesigning the app's Visual Skills AI agent surface, from competitive audit through a high-fidelity Figma component system, plus a brand repositioning across social.
• Run the research plan and critique cadence, with design reviews from the studio's Adobe mentors.

Demon Nights, hosted by DJ Diablo · New York, NY

• Perform live audio-reactive visuals every Thursday on a custom TouchDesigner network projected venue-wide.
• Built the signal chain on a multi-band audioAnalysis COMP integrated with a Pioneer DJM-V10 mixer; recalibrate kick detection and frequency thresholds on-site each week to track the set.
• Developing MediaPipe hand tracking as a live gesture input, and record every set on video.

Licensed tooth gem studio (s0mped.xyz, @sompednyc) · New York, NY

• Run the studio as a solo operator: 80+ clients, grown mostly through referrals.
• Designed the brand identity and produced print-ready files for die-cut stickers and business cards.
• Wrote a garment tech pack for a custom crop top, prepared for sourcing through Alibaba.
• Shoot and edit all photo and video for Instagram and TikTok in Premiere Pro and After Effects; built the booking flow and the site.

Solo Designer & Developer · Read the case study

• Researched the fitness-app drop-off problem through 6 competitor teardowns and 6 interviews, distilled into 3 behavioral archetypes.
• Shipped an offline-first PWA (Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase) with 39 components and 824 tests across 42 files; its progression engine adds load on clean sets and deloads after three misses.
• Replaced a planned leaderboard with a monthly challenge after live sessions showed that ranking beginners worked against the research; closed 12 findings across three accessibility audits.
• Hand-drew the bull mascot that carries the brand; now in a live tester wave.

Solo Designer & Developer, NYU IMA · Read the case study

• A 15-minute browser game: players adopt an AI pet with a hidden flaw (sycophancy, gaslighting, hallucination, reckless advice), name it, and write the rules that constrain it.
• Pets read the player's face locally with face-api.js, disclosed up front; a mood-access dial turns data minimization into a choice the player can see.
• Mid-build interviews showed the chatbot format felt clinical; rebuilt it as a full-screen pixel pet world. About 76% of 100+ visitors named their pet's flaw unprompted.
• Drew the title screen, SVG training-room scene, and certificate screen. The first build ran on the OpenAI API; the Jun to Sep rebuild runs offline in kiosk mode with no account, key, or server.

Product Designer & Developer

• For NYU first-years: type what you want, or answer three quick questions (food and drink, area, needs), and AI returns a few spots with pros and cons for each.
• Designed Bobst Library as a tappable isometric building whose floor colors mirror the library's own color-coded signage (silent, group, reference).
• Cut opt-in live location sharing as a safety risk for a first-year audience; the social layer became a post feed inside the map. Web prototype on GitHub; busyness ranking from BestTime.app.

• Replaces the hard-to-read Passio GO site with one answer per class: when to leave and when the shuttle arrives. Each friend sets their own building and schedule, with import planned from an Albert screenshot.

Art Direction & Interaction Design · Play and read the case study

• Placed 2nd of 20 entries with a calm game about untangling river clutter and rebuilding a lost town bell; interpreted the CLUTTER theme through Roblox fishing simulators and shaped Braxton Hauw's brief into a playable game.

UX Research & Product Design · Read the case study

• Arduino moisture sensors paired with a social app; research led to plant thought bubbles driven by live moisture data and a rewards loop.

• Physical computing and installation: Pulse, a heartbeat glove; a TouchDesigner jellyfish installation; Under the Weather, a p5.js weather app.
• Tools for daily use: drift, a personal planner; handfeel, a fabric-feel web app; a budgeting app; a Supabase-backed birthday memory wall.