Lujia Xu

Experience

Community Experience Design Intern

• Designed requirements and interactions for an AI workspace MVP connecting reusable design assets, generation, page editing, and handoff.
• Structured page and component assets, including hierarchy, code mappings, usage rules, and edit boundaries; aligned asset examples with backend requirements.
• Designed multi-page generation, partial editing, failure recovery, and undo flows, with interaction documentation and acceptance criteria.
• Developed tablet video proposals for playback controls and split-view panels; iterated information hierarchy and viewing flows through design reviews.

UX research + strategy project

• Contributed to cultural probes, surveys, interviews, competitive analysis, and secondary research for The Nature Conservancy Georgia.
• Synthesized participation barriers and communication opportunities to inform outreach and conservation communication concepts.

Selected projects

UX/UI contribution to research synthesis, task-management interactions, and prototyping. Explored task creation, rescheduling, and completion feedback with AI coding tools.

Design strategy and UX/UI contribution to a shared-temperature-control system across mobile and thermostat interfaces, including state feedback and a UI kit.

Education

MFA, User Experience Design

BFA, Digital Media Art

Skills + tools

Product and interaction design · User research · Information architecture · Prototyping · UI systems · Usability testing · Cross-functional collaboration

Figma · FigJam · AI-assisted coding · HTML/CSS/JavaScript · React fundamentals · JSON/Schema · Git