Hi, I’m Ruoyun

I am a UX designer. I love creating meaningful connections, solving real-world problems, and crafting better experiences through Design.

For me, technology should empower people, not exclude them. Let’s brew positive change together! ✨

Fun facts: I’ve seen the aurora several times; I switched off my phone for three days on a solo trip from Umeå to Vassa; and I have moved 10 houses across Europe so far.

Works

Myskills: Discovering the real needs of nursing students in a self-directed learning app through prototype testing

Client: Laerdal Medical | Role: UX Designer (Intern) | Duration: 3 Months, 2022

  Hypothesis Testing
  Cross-Functional Collaboration
  User research report

 Explore how I prototyped and tested MySkills, a self-directed learning app at Laerdal Medical, designed to empower nursing students, improve skill retention, and reduce post-graduation errors — creating a learning experience that goes beyond 'correcting mistakes' to address an underestimated need - their emotional need.

Case study upon request

Myskills: interactive prototype for testing (Visual Example)

Seeme: Co-creating a non-visual mirror for social skills training with blind students↗

Self-driven project | Duration: 4 Months, 2019 | Full case study available

  Immersive Research
  User Testing
  Assistive Tech

  65% of communication is non-verbal, yet traditional education for visually impaired students lacks training in non-verbal skills, leading to social anxiety, low confidence ("Is my smile looking strange to others?"), and isolation. In a self-driven project, I conducted immersive research and partnered with blind participants to create Seeme. 
  Seeme, a mobile app that acts as a non-visual mirror to reflect users' social behaviors, uses AI to detect nonverbal cues and translate them into real-time audio guidance (e.g., "Your smile feels warm—keep it up!"). The app pairs this with a community-driven practice platform for safe social skill-building. 

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Philips IGT: Validating concepts in Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) through visual storyboard and planned interview

Client: Philips | Role: UX Designer (Intern) | Duration: 6 Months, 2022

  Medical UX Design
  Clinical Stakeholder Collaboration
  Voice of Customer Interview

 Philips IGT aimed to validate next-generation medical devices for different intervention procedures, like the EasyICE catheter—a safer, minimally invasive alternative to traditional TEE devices for cardiac interventions. As the UX designer, I joined 4 IGT product teams, bringing advanced medical concept and complex procedure flows into visual storyboard and UI mockups. Validated concepts with professional users, and proved the clinical and commercial viability of emerging image-guided therapy technology to surgeons and stakeholders.

Case study upon request

Key process: UI mockup in scenarios to validate concepts with professional users

Archived Project Gallery

Here I listed all my short-term or long-term, big or small, individual or collaborative projects that excited me, all ideas or explorations that start from an interesting question! 💭 🤔 💡

Public speaking on “Tone” (Watch Video 🔈)
How can AI help us to enhance empathy with each other in online communication?

Hybrid Math Education Guidebook
What would a hybrid active learning mean for a mathematics class in university?

A non-sound alarm
How the form of light can be used to wake people up?

Beep — the sound of painting music. — A little painting toy
Beep ~ the sound of painting music.

Art installation
Should we keep waiting for the wind to clean the air? Blow the smog!

youtube video screenshot — Short film
Are you living in an Instagram’s lie? Do you see the truth?

Unlocking Human magic ✨ in digital space
How can we bring back the magic 🪄 -> engagement, passion and energy -< that we have been sharing through interactions with others to remote work environments?

Unlocking Human magic ✨ in digital space
Behind scene process, we worked as a group using different methods to explore and prototype concepts.

What makes me happy about in life…

Off-screen, I’m spoiling a Birman cat, mixing Italian-Chinese flavors, or collecting human stories on city sidewalks. During weekend, I also sometimes participate in Living Library events as a volunteer. For me, technology should empower people not exclude them. And it is important always to expand our borders, to talk with different people, to see the missed gaps in society. Let’s brew positive change together! ✨