👋 Hello, I’m Yuan Fang
Once a storyteller through art, now a designer uncovering the why behind products ⚖️
a second-year MS student @ UW HCDE.Currently a UX design intern @ Alibaba Cloud.
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Selected Work
2025 | 🏆 Innovation Award, To B Service, AI Avatars, Video/Text Editor, TTS
🎤 Alibaba Cloud: AI Digital Avatars
Innovative text-visualization approach to drive high-fidelity digital AI avatars
2025 | To B Service, LLM, Character, Chatbot
🤵 Alibaba Cloud: AI Character
Immersive, user-centered product experiences demonstrate LLM's capabilities
2024 | AI Agent, In-ride experience, Autonomous driving
🚗 AI Autonomous Ridesharing Experience
A localized AI-assisted system for a customized autonomous ridesharing experience
2025 | UX Research, AIGC, Text to Video, Management
🖼️ VP Genie: GenAI Filmmaking Solution
Usability Study: An intuitive, easy-to-use interaction flow improved the efficiency and expanded the user base
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About Me
3 Words that describe me
Curious · Empathetic · Driven
How I Work
I work in a fast, iterative loop. I start by grounding myself in the problem—talking to users, reviewing data, and aligning constraints with PMs and engineers. Clear communication matters to me.
I sketch early, prototype quickly, and validate often. I’m comfortable changing direction based on feedback or metrics—I stay attached to outcomes, not ideas.
When things get ambiguous, I over-communicate, break problems down, and ship in small increments. Speed matters, but quality matters more—I aim for decisions that scale, not just quick fixes.
And I’m at my best when collaborating: asking hard questions, working across disciplines, and pushing toward solutions that are both technically feasible and human-centered.
I sketch early, prototype quickly, and validate often. I’m comfortable changing direction based on feedback or metrics—I stay attached to outcomes, not ideas.
When things get ambiguous, I over-communicate, break problems down, and ship in small increments. Speed matters, but quality matters more—I aim for decisions that scale, not just quick fixes.
And I’m at my best when collaborating: asking hard questions, working across disciplines, and pushing toward solutions that are both technically feasible and human-centered.
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Experience
Alibaba Cloud
UX Design Intern
Jun-Oct 2025
Meituan
UX Design Intern
Apr-Jun 2025
Interco.AI
UX Researcher (Client Project)
Jan- Apr 2025
White Noise Design Studio
Interior Design Assistant
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
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