Designing interactive systems across screens, spaces, and intelligence.
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Cecilia Xu

Product Designer & Creative Technologist|

I turn behavioral insights into playful digital and physical experiences.

  • // Design Technology @ Cornell University
  • // Psychology & Environmental Design @ Tsinghua University

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SelectedWorks
Growth-driven check-in design that brings readers into the app and back every day
UI/UX
Narro2026
An AI reading companion you wake like a genie lamp
Hardware
A merge-and-build tavern game inside Tencent News
Game
ApplAI2025
Making AI-driven hiring legible for job seekers
UI/UX
Urban playground built from social media imagery
Creative
A VR eye-tracking study of how corner angles shape where visitors look
XR
ACuriousDesignerBuildingPlayableWorlds
WiredMyFirstSensorInElementarySchool
HasBuiltTreehousesAndCardboardFurniture
VisualDirectorFor30+StageShows
BecameA3rdDanInTaekwondoAt15
ASeasonedDaydreamer
AHandmadeGirlWhoLovesCrafting
DreamsOfOpeningAHomemadeBakery
ACuriousDesignerBuildingPlayableWorlds
Along the Way
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