Umi is an interactive designer who likes to build things with code. She has strong UX background and has been working in digital media since 2009. Right now she's working as a Graphics/Multimedia Editor at The New York Times. See all of her latest work.

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The Royal Wedding: Frequently Asked Questions
The Royal Wedding: Frequently Asked Questions

A super fun piece.

Overlooked
Overlooked

A project to provide obituaries for notable women who were overlooked in The Times’s 167-year history.

The Lost Children of Tuam
The Lost Children of Tuam

2nd winner of the Seventy-Fifth Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition for "Online Feature Story Editing". #10 on Chartbeat's list of The 100 Most Engaging Stories of the Year 2017.

The 400-Degree Thanksgiving
The 400-Degree Thanksgiving

Best Mobile Experience for Digital Platform and Best Feature Video: Service for the 53rd Annual Design Competition by The Society of Publication Designers (SPD); Award of Excellence in Features: Single-subject Project in the Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design Competition for 2017

Women Are Making the Best Rock Music Today
Women Are Making the Best Rock Music Today

Best Web: Homepage/Single Screen Design and Custom Feature Design (Longform) for the 53rd Annual Design Competition by The Society of Publication Designers (SPD); Award of Excellence in Features: Single-subject Project in the Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design Competition for 2017.

Your Photos of A Solar Eclipse's Journey Across America
Your Photos of A Solar Eclipse's Journey Across America

Silver medal in Breaking/Daily News: Single-subject Project in the Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design Competition for 2017

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Collective Craving
Collective Craving

An interactive Twitter visualization of human cravings during 13 major US public events from Fall 2015 to Spring 2016. http://collectivecraving.us

Between Spaces - MFADT Thesis 2016
Between Spaces - MFADT Thesis 2016

A website showcasing all of the thesis projects from Parsons MFA Design & Technology Class of 2016. http://mfadt.parsons.edu/2016/

PastPost: An Exploration of Vintage Postcards
PastPost: An Exploration of Vintage Postcards

A visualization of 5781 postcards across US from 1898 - 1931, taken from NYPL digital collection. Demo: http://slowfa.de/pastposts/

IMDB 1000
IMDB 1000

A visualization of the ethnicities of the directors and actors of the 1000 highest rated movies on IMDB. Contribution to #OscarsSoWhite conversation on Twitter. Demo: http://slowfa.de/imdb1000

FOODEVOTION: When You Wish Upon Food
FOODEVOTION: When You Wish Upon Food

An installation that captures the relationship between people and their inner craving. It asks the audience one simple question, “If you could have ANY food in the world right now, what would you wish for?”

Project CRAVE: A Food Installation
Project CRAVE: A Food Installation

An installation that tries to instigate people's inner craving, through real food display interface (pizza, sushi, burger, bacon, steak).

NEW YOARK - Augmenting Diversity
NEW YOARK - Augmenting Diversity

An AR mobile app that highlights the diversity of NYC by combining multi-sensory aspects of visuals + recorded audio of real New Yorkers.

The Love Circuit at Washington Sq. Park
The Love Circuit at Washington Sq. Park

An installation that encourages interactions between strangers, by forcing them to hold hands to complete a human circuit that triggers sound.

Data Visualization : Cheap Eats Near School
Data Visualization : Cheap Eats Near School

A visualization showing all the cheap-eats options based on proximity Parsons School of Design, NY. Dataset from Yelp, made in Processing.

PLAY·GROUND

/ˈplāˌground/ a.k.a Experiments that aren't worthy enough for a portfolio but somehow I'd like to remind the myself that I was once this eager of learning new stuffs. And it was indeed fun!

PAST WORK (2012-2014)

Here are some of my old portfolios from my past role as a User Experience (UX) Evangelist for Microsoft Indonesia (2012-2014). Clients for both Windows Phone and Windows 8 app design include: Trakindo CAT, Garuda and Citilink Indonesia, Bank Central Asia, Kaskus, BlueBird Taxi, Express Taxi, Bussan Auto Finance, MetroTV, OkeZone, etc. See more Mobile App's UI+UX Design work.

I'M A FOODIE. BIG TIME.

I used to be a food blogger. It was something that I've been enjoy doing since 2009, and here I used to share stories and tantalizing culinary pics from some of my favorite eating spots. Right now I'm more active on Instagram, as you can see below. Follow me @umieats!

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