Shane Huang, a multidisciplinary designer born in Guangzhou and raised in California, currently based in Tokyo. With a passion for blending emerging technologies with design, Shane creates both digital and tangible experiences. Holding a BA from UC Davis and an MFA from CCA, her work spans interaction design, product design, and HCI research.
Over the past eight years, Shane has delved into various design disciplines, including graphic, user-experience, industrial, product, and interaction design. Currently, she's focused on shaping the future of social robotic at ICMG Digital. Before this role, Shane explored cross-species human-computer interactions, particularly between cats and humans, during her graduate studies. Her background also includes working at a digital marketing agency specializing in AI branding, where she honed her leadership in branding and product design. Shane's experience extends to XR content creation, crafting immersive real-time parallax effects for video production. As a China-born, queer designer, she integrates cultural appreciation and minority awareness into her projects, from AR applications challenging social norms to VR experiences that foster empathy and support the LGBTQ community.
Beyond this, Shane also has a background in fine arts, where she honed her skills in graphite sketching, oil painting, film, and digital photography, which ultimately led her to the creative field. Beyond her professional practice as a designer, she is interested in cooking fushion food, weight training, camping, and hiking to appreciate nature and step away from the world of digitization and technology.