UX Designer / Product Designer / Interaction Designer

DesigningMeaningful DigitalExperiences.

Hi, I'm Zijing Lu. I'm a UX Designer and Interaction Designer passionate about creating intuitive and meaningful digital products.

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Design meaningful digital experiences through storytelling, interaction, and emerging technology.

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Selected Work

Product stories shaped through research, systems and emotion.

Each project is reframed as a concise case study: the problem, the insight, the interaction and the design decision.

AI Reading Experience2024

AI Story Companion

An AI-assisted continuation experience that helps long-form fiction readers recover plot memory, character context, clues and worldbuilding after reading breaks.

AR Earphone Concept2024

WavePulse

A speculative AR earphone that explores sensory augmentation, visual perception and assistive interaction through a lightweight wearable form.

All-channel Museum Platform2024

VR Museum

A digital museum platform combining AR, VR and AI to create a seamless online and offline visitor experience.

Medical Emergency VR Game2023-2025

The Lab's Secret

An immersive educational game where players practice emergency medical knowledge through 3D scenes, dynamic feedback and mission-based learning.

Illustration / Visual Storytelling2024

Illustration Showcase

A visual collection of anime-style illustrations, avatar studies, black-and-white comics and color illustrations from the original portfolio.

AI Art Software2024

Art Vision

An AI-powered art software concept that helps users master composition, explore artistic styles and turn creative ideas into visual outcomes.

Oil Painting / Visual Narrative2024

The Night Banquet

An oil painting project exploring the dialogue between tradition and contemporary storytelling through light, composition and symbolic detail.

About

I design where story, learning and technology meet.

My background moves between UX, fine art, XR, AI design and game-based learning. I care about digital experiences that help people understand information, build emotional connection and solve real problems.

Master of Science2023-2024

Johns Hopkins University

Digital Learning / Game Design, GPA 3.92/4.0

Bachelor, Oil Painting2019-2023

Taiyuan University of Technology

211 University, Excellent Graduate, scholarships and design awards

Skills

Skills, recognition and workflows

UX ResearchInteraction DesignProduct StrategyInformation ArchitectureFigmaAI-assisted DesignXR PrototypingGame DesignVisual SystemsStorytelling

Experience

Design practice grounded in product, visual systems and learning.

Led UI and interaction logic for a medical emergency VR learning game, translating complex medical knowledge into playable learning systems.

Designed clear UI layouts and 3D interaction flows for immersive emergency scenarios.
Worked with medical experts and education researchers to turn healthcare knowledge into game design documentation.
Built mission systems, level pacing and learning tasks that balance educational value with playability.

Skills

Turns ambiguous problems into design directions through interviews, competitor analysis and journey mapping.

Design Philosophy

Clarity first. Emotion second. Technology in service of both.

Meaning

Design should help users understand why something matters, not only where to tap.

Interaction

Motion and feedback should reduce uncertainty, create rhythm and support decision-making.

Emerging Tech

AI and XR are valuable when they make human goals easier, clearer and more memorable.

Contact

Let's create meaningful digital experiences.

Available for UX, product design, interaction design and creative technology opportunities.

Email Zijing

Emailluzijing0815@163.com Phone15364940815