Qinyuan Zhou
Nicole · MS, Integrated Design & Media, NYU
About
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Hi, I’m Qinyuan Zhou, and I also go by Nicole Chou. I’m currently a first-year master’s student in Integrated Design & Media at NYU Tandon, based in Brooklyn.
I studied English before moving into interaction design. My interest in language gradually led me to think about how people communicate, both with each other and through the things they use. I’m especially interested in how design can make everyday interactions feel more comfortable and help people connect.
At IDM, I’m learning through making—working with physical materials, trying out creative coding, and figuring out what happens when an idea becomes something people can actually use or experience. This website brings together my previous projects and current class work, including experiments, things that didn’t work, and what I learned along the way.
More about my background → Read my intellectual autobiography
I studied English before moving into interaction design. My interest in language gradually led me to think about how people communicate, both with each other and through the things they use. I’m especially interested in how design can make everyday interactions feel more comfortable and help people connect.
At IDM, I’m learning through making—working with physical materials, trying out creative coding, and figuring out what happens when an idea becomes something people can actually use or experience. This website brings together my previous projects and current class work, including experiments, things that didn’t work, and what I learned along the way.
More about my background → Read my intellectual autobiography
Previous Work
Class Work
Work from Ideation & Prototyping — early-stage concepting, sketching, and rapid physical or digital prototypes. Open this section as its own page ↗
Work from Creative Coding — generative sketches, interactive pieces, and experiments in code as a design material.
Work from Research Methods — grounded in theory, practice, and collaboration, less about polish and more about building the structural thinking that grounds later creative work. View group-work website ↗