about
Emily Chu
Director of Product Design at IPG Mediabrands, Kinesso
Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design
My time in the design field spans animation, front-end development, data visualization design and product design for think tanks, academia, finance and ad agencies. Most of my work solves problems for data-intensive organizational and enterprise applications, inspired by consumer UX scenarios to modernize legacy systems. I look for opportunities to understand problems from all perspectives and find common priorities, designing experience blueprints that anticipate the rapidly evolving, dynamic nature of products in today's marketplace.
I've found the most satisfaction in developing and growing teams of designers, both in the classroom and in the workplace. I love working with and curating groups of designers with a variety of different skillsets and backgrounds, leveraging unique strengths to come together and make an impact collectively.
Some things I'm up to in my personal time include: experimenting with computational and multimedia art, adding pieces to my recycled packaging interior design series, looking up recipes where I can leverage my torch blower, and a lot of traveling and learning from other cultures and histories.
Director of Product Design at IPG Mediabrands, Kinesso
Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design
My time in the design field spans animation, front-end development, data visualization design and product design for think tanks, academia, finance and ad agencies. Most of my work solves problems for data-intensive organizational and enterprise applications, inspired by consumer UX scenarios to modernize legacy systems. I look for opportunities to understand problems from all perspectives and find common priorities, designing experience blueprints that anticipate the rapidly evolving, dynamic nature of products in today's marketplace.
I've found the most satisfaction in developing and growing teams of designers, both in the classroom and in the workplace. I love working with and curating groups of designers with a variety of different skillsets and backgrounds, leveraging unique strengths to come together and make an impact collectively.
Some things I'm up to in my personal time include: experimenting with computational and multimedia art, adding pieces to my recycled packaging interior design series, looking up recipes where I can leverage my torch blower, and a lot of traveling and learning from other cultures and histories.
Courses I teach
- Information Visualization
- Creative Team Dynamics
- Harnessing AI in Creative Organizations
- Research & Development Methods
Specialty areas
- Data visualization
- Enterprise design systems
- UX / UI
- Product design
- Interaction design
- Machine learning
- Designing with AI
- Team operations and management
Awards & publications
small flexes, deep appreciation
enterprise
Awards
Innovation by Design
Honorable Mention: Large Business
Fast Company
UX, Interface & Navigation
Gold
Indigo Design Awards
Digital Design
Gold
Indigo Design Awards
Digital Tools & Utilities
Gold
Indigo Design Awards
Information Design
Silver
Indigo Design Awards
Interactive Design
Silver
Indigo Design Awards
Digital Design of the Year
Indigo Design Awards
Interaction Design
Silver
Indigo Design Awards
UX, Interface & Design
Silver
Indigo Design Awards
Interface Design
Red Dot Awards
personal
Awards
Notes on Perspective
Shortlist
Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards
Forms of Attraction
Shortlist
Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards
Conferences
shows & talks
Digitally Engaged Conference (DEL)
AI-driven Support Team for Personalized Learning
Speaker
Singapore
Culture Gate To Existence
.codex, a series of generative data-driven designs
Physical Group Show
London, England
MYSOUNDMYWAY International Conference (臺北音樂不斷電)
Visualization and Interaction of Live Concerts
Speaker
Taipei, Taiwan
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
Visualizing Time-Based Qualitative Data about Music Performance
Publication Contributor
Online
South by Southwest (SXSW) Edu
Visualizing Shared Musical Experiences
Presenter
Austin, Texas
Data + Art by Women in Data
Designing Audioreactive Visualizations: Creating art from music data
Speaker
Online