Design Portfolio

Anonymous Counseling Kiosk

This kiosk was designed to create a private, immediate and anonymous setting inside a school library. Through this kiosk, teens can seek help without fear of exposure.

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Inner Palette

This app was designed to be a a mobile mood-tracking app that turns daily emotions into colorful data and quick insights. Log how you feel with a single tap on a 16-color mood palette, add context with activity and location tags, and watch your moods form patterns on maps and timelines. Personalized streaks and weekly mini-insights keep you motivated while helping you build lasting self-awareness.

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Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Space

Exploring how ordinary domestic spaces can be split, lifted, and rearranged to reveal emotional tension. The fragmented walls suggest memories that no longer align perfectly. A set design experiment transforming daily rooms into a surreal stage. Each wall becomes a frame for a different scene of thought and recollection.

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Fragmented States

An abstract depiction of anxiety, depression, confusion, and lethargy. Symbolic forms express emotional tension, and bold colors highlight the sense of fragmentation and emptiness.

The Weight of Growing Up

This infographic was designed to inform the increasing obesity rate in New York City. Obesity has become an increasing problem in our world today, and a significant gap between ethnicity can be seen as well.

Interwoven Thoughts

This work portrays two inner emotions crossing paths. Warm and cool colors show the difference in emotional temperature. Curved lines represent thoughts connecting. The subtle warm light reflects the desire for understanding even in uncertainty.

The Weight of Healing

This work explores the emotional process of healing. The heart symbolizes pain, and the arms represent self-acceptance. Despite internal turmoil, the figure holds onto its own warmth. It conveys that healing starts from within.

Silent Alignment

This piece visualizes the search for balance within emotional disorder. Structured lines convey both tension and tranquility, while the large circle symbolizes concentrated emotional energy. The figure rests at the center, slowly settling into calm.

Resonance Within

A visualization of emotional resonance. The warm sphere symbolizes connection, the hands reflect shared healing, and the calm palette reveals both intimacy and fragility.

Overthinking

This experimental typography piece visualizes the confusion of human thought. Repeating emotions—anxiety, pressure, emptiness—form a structured sense of chaos. The ending “beep” marks the breakdown of inner stillness and the moment of mental overload.

Wavelength of Mind

This piece interprets emotional movement as a data-like signal. Changing sounds and forms symbolize the fluid, ever-shifting nature of human feelings. The looping, atmospheric visuals convey the uninterrupted continuity of inner experience

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