I am Huiwen, working across interaction and visual design.
Design, to me, is about uncovering meaning — where analysis meets intuition, and ideas take form.
Let the night fall
Design, to me, is about uncovering meaning — where analysis meets intuition, and ideas take form.
Let the night fall
A gesture-based tool for learning basic sign language.
The Visual Dictionary teaches basic American Sign Language (ASL) through gesture and image. Users perform a sign in front of the webcam — when it is recognised, a matching photograph appears as feedback.
A VR game where you experience a bee's mission to revive its homeland.
You are a bee, returning home to find the garden lifeless — as your tears fall to the ground, the plants miraculously regrow. Each one revived brings your hive back to life.
Technical requirements: Meta Quest 2
In-house and freelance design for an art-film organisation.
Centre for Experimental Film (CEF) is an art organisation dedicated to art film screening and study. My work spans graphic design for film screening events, marketing materials, social media, and UI updates for CEF's mini programme.
3D and editorial design for an alternative fashion history generated by a self-trained AI.
The project began by training an AI on a database of fashion history, blogs, and novels by Jean Genet. The AI named itself Rous D’Alenciennes and generated its own writing. A short 3D animated video and magazine were created from this text, inviting viewers to contemplate the intricate relationships between fashion, body, identity, and culture.
A web tool to mix your memory clips.
A collection of modular visuals.
Nature, liquid, cyanotype, typography, music... a collection of modular visuals exploring the synthesis of hand printing and VJ techniques.
Education
2022 – 2024
Master's in Visual Communication Design
University of Bergen, Norway
2017 – 2020
Bachelor's in Industrial Design
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Exchange studies at HEAD–Genève & University of Tartu
Skills
Interaction & UX
Wireframing · Prototyping · User Research · Interaction Design
Visual
Visual Identity · Branding · Editorial Design · 3D Design · Motion Design
Technical Familiarity
HTML/CSS · Creative Coding
Tools
Figma · Adobe Creative Suite · Cinema 4D · AI-assisted Workflow