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Xinyi Li

  • M.F.A Communications Design, Pratt Institute
Xinyi Li

Xinyi Li is a designer working within the realms of visual communication and interactive experience. Xinyi embraces the evolving landscape of design and regards design as a method of inquiry to intellectual challenges and complex problems. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, where she engaged in design projects, research, and teaching activities. She has given talks about her work at the Digital Humanities Conference, AIGA Converge, AIGA/NY’s Fresh Grad, and has conducted workshops at Pratt Free School. Her practice ranges from design research for healthcare system at Diagram, to interactive design at Apple and Intel.

Xinyi was the User Experience Designer at the Center for Digital Humanities from 2016 to 2018. She worked with CDH staff on issues of interdisciplinary collaborative research and developed a design collaboration process, designed user experience and visuals for CDH sponsored projects, taught workshops providing design and thinking tools to facilitate meaningful visual production for humanistic knowledge.

Xinyi is currently teaching at the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute.

Related projects

Data Beyond Vision

experimental physical representations of humanities data

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bitKlavier

A software tool for exploring the prepared digital piano, an instrument at the charged border between body and computer.

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Soviet Journals Reconnected

Mapping the networks of co-publication in the Soviet “thick” journals to show interrelations between cultural forms and social groups.

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Related events

Data Visualization II

Mar 26 3:30PM–5:00PM
Nick Budak
Xinyi Li
Workshop
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Visual Storytelling

Feb 19 12:00PM–1:20PM
Xinyi Li
Workshop
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Design Thinking

Nov 8 4:30PM–6:00PM
Xinyi Li
Workshop

Related posts

Designing for Jacques Derrida

30 October 2018

In Derrida’s Margins, design is not an empty vessel. Instead, I’m hoping to bring design into the foreground as an active form of representation. This project approaches design with characteristics of Derrida's own reading practice and that of the philosophy of deconstruction.
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