A header with a self portrait of Xin Yi, surrounded by symbols that represent her personality and hobbies, with text 'I'm Xin Yi, I'm a UX designer who loves to explore and create for good.'
A header with a self portrait of Xin Yi, surrounded by symbols that represent her personality and hobbies, with text 'I'm Xin Yi, I'm a UX designer who loves to explore and create for good.'

Work

As an undergraduate studying Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, I have had the chance to hone my design thinking skills through various internships and projects. Find out more about them below!

Build For Good Hackathon 2024:
Good Goods

As part of the Build For Good Hackathon 2024 held by Open Government Products (OGP), my group created a web application to help consumers discover social enterprises to contribute to their social cause.

Govtech logo
UI/UX Designer Internship

Interning as part of the GatherSG team in GovTech for 5 months as a UI/UX Design Intern, I got to take part in numerous activities across the design thinking process for both internal and external facing projects aimed to improve the work processes of the users.

NUS Laundry Application Mock Ups
NUS Laundry

An end-to-end design process in conceptualising an application to streamline laundry doing for students residing on campus.

55 Minutes Ptd Ltd Logo and Mission
UX Research Internship

Interning at 55Minutes Ptd Ltd (a design studio) for 6 months as a UX Research intern, I got to take part in User Research and User Acceptance Test Activities, gaining the expertise to understand users better.

Mock Ups of Prototype for Project Sight Words, including the logos for DAS & GDSC
Project Sight Words

A Tech-For-Good project to create a responsive web application to help teachers and dyslexic students at the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS).

A thumbnail consisting of a prototype of our DRE voting system solution
GDS Day 2023 Hackathon

As part of a Hackathon for Govtech's Government Digital Services (GDS) division, my team and I designed a DRE Voting System to improve the efficiency of Singapore's elections.

Thumbnail for our game Roar of the Dinosaur, including the characters and URL to the game
Game Design: Roar of the Dinosaur

A single-player, 2D platformer game played from a third-person camera perspective. Playing the role of a Designer, I designed the levels and communicated them to the developer, as well as took part in playtesting sessions.

Content Creation Work

I also have experience with digtal marketing (SEO/SEM) for a school project, along with experiences curating social media posts for publicity! Find out more under Marketing/Content Creation. In enjoying expressions of creativity, I have also explored videography, video editing and photography in school, that you can check out Videography & Photography porfolio.

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Thumbnail for Videography & Photography Portfolio

Outside Work Work

I like to draw and illustrate! Check out my work here if you're interested:)

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