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y (u/xi) ng✧

UI/UX designer in North Carolina.

UNC psychology and journalism grad, now designing at Phison. I start every project with how people actually behave.

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About me

Hi, I'm Yu Xi (Xixi) ✧

I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in May 2026 with degrees in psychology and media & journalism, and now I'm a full-time UI/UX designer at Phison.

  • Based inNorth Carolina
  • StudiedPsychology + Media & Journalism
  • BirthplaceMuar, Johor, Malaysia
  • ToolkitFigma, Procreate, HTML/CSS/JS
🪽 board game collector 🖇️ shopping addict 🥋 3rd dan black belt 🥛 whole milk enthusiast
Selected work

Case studies

Three projects: a corporate blog, a food pantry app, and a robo-advisor.

Phison Blog Redesign

A cluttered corporate blog turned into a browsable content hub — research, stakeholder interviews, and two rounds of prototyping.

ResultA full redesign system handed off to Phison's Marketing and Web teams.
UX/UI InternFigma2025
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Carolina Cupboard

A mobile check-in and inventory app for a student-run food pantry — designed with App Team Carolina for volunteers and patrons alike.

ResultA prototype that replaces the paper notecards. Not shipped yet.
UX/UI DesignerFigmaiOS
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Vanguard Digital Advisor

A semester-long redesign of Vanguard's robo-advisor platform for new investors, built with feedback from a Vanguard UX designer.

ResultThree new features aimed at jargon and navigation.
UX/UI DesignerFigma2024
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Illustration & Media

Visual work

Illustration, animation, and video editing I make outside of UX work.

Illustration

Digital illustration of a woman in a red hanfu sitting on a giant lily pad at night, holding up a glowing white rabbit, with lotus flowers and red lanterns floating around her

Mid Autumn Festival Graphic

  • Procreate
  • Collab
  • 2025
Digital portrait of a woman with long wavy hair leaning over a dark-haired man, framed by cherry blossoms and an Art Nouveau border
Line art for the book cover, before colour

Book Cover Art

  • Procreate
  • OCs
  • 2023
Marker illustration of a dark-haired woman resting her chin on the head of a red and green snake coiled around her shoulders, on a black background
Envy at the ink stage: black line art of the woman and the snake, with hatching on the scales, before any colour

Envy

  • Copic Marker
  • Ink
  • OC
  • 2022
Digital illustration of two young men, one dark-haired and one blond, posed together in front of an extreme close-up of their own eyes

Art Trend Collab!

  • Procreate
  • OC
  • 2026
Painting of a girl in a white dress dancing on still water, with her reflection and the clouds mirrored below her against a bright blue sky

Glassy Sky

  • Gouache
  • Original Work
  • 2022
Digital painting of a figure with long golden hair and a gold circlet, holding a pale glowing flower, on a dark background
The same painting at the sketch stage on an iPad, with the in-game reference image pinned in the corner

Miquella the Kind

  • Procreate
  • Fanart (Elden Ring)
  • 2026

Animation & video

Still in rose tones: Odysseus and Penelope leaning together under a tree, both wearing laurel leaves
Still in violet tones, split by a diagonal line: Penelope crying on the left, a scarred and bearded Odysseus on the right

Would you fall in love with me again?

  • Procreate
  • Fanart (EPIC: The Musical)
  • 2025

Obsessica

  • Procreate
  • Procreate Dreams
  • Alight Motion
  • OCs
  • 2026

Eliminated Anime OP

  • Clip Studio Paint Pro
  • Filmora
  • 2019

The Woman who Never Smiled

  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Short Documentary
  • 2023

Dirty Work - aespa

  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Dance Cover
  • UNC UKDT
Hobbies

Off the clock

What I'm looping, playing, and reading when I'm not in Figma.

On repeat

Playing & reading

  • Elden Ring
  • Fire Punch
  • Hades II
  • Witch Hat Atelier
  • Valorant
  • To Your Eternity
  • Slay the Spire II
  • Daemons of the Shadow Realm
  • Animo

Camera roll

Five friends posing beside a railway track on a sunny day
filming a dance cover ִֶ🐇་༘
A street food stall at night under glowing street lamps
wonton mee stall in muar
Sitting on rocks at the edge of a pond under green trees
garden in suzhou, china ˖᯽ ݁˖
Posing with two costumed performers at a theme park
🦊🐰shanghai disney
Two people in kimono photographing golden autumn leaves
winter in kyoto ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
Friends gathered behind a kitchen counter covered in home-cooked food
🦃 annual friendsgiving
The Trevi Fountain in Rome in warm light
✮⋆˙ trevi fountain in rome
Graduation photo in a sunlit library with a checkered floor
grad shoot at wilson library ಄
Lying on a greenhouse floor beside glasses of colourful beads
themed shoot in shanghai ₊⊹
Peace-sign pose in front of a towering natural stone arch
⋆˚࿔ hiking through wulong karst
Three people in matching uniform outfits in front of a lit carousel
study abroad in south korea ⚞^. .^⚟
Sitting on a swivel chair in a cafe lined with vinyl records, old cameras, books, and a goldfish tank
ngam cafe in hcm 𓏲๋࣭࣪˖🪼.ᐟ
Say hi

Let's talk

Email is the fastest way to reach me. I'm always happy to talk about design, research, or what you're playing right now.

ngyuxi@gmail.com Download resume