❤️ Hi, I’m Eileen, a product designer with a background in World Arts and Cultures (UCLA) and Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE, UW).
☝I design at the intersection of data-driven strategy, business goals, and human empathy, turning complex research and collaboration into user-centered experiences that balance clarity, detail, and emotional depth.
🌏 My passion for product design started during my travels, especially in remote regions where I stayed with local families and conducted ethnographic interviews. From the highlands of ethnic minority villages to the quiet corners of everyday homes, I listened, observed, and learned.
🌿 Always curious, always listening.
🍵When I’m not designing, I’m usually journaling, exploring tea shops, or wandering through quiet galleries, collecting stories that later shape how I see and design the world.
🧭 Below are some of the interviews I took during my fieldwork, moments that continue to inspire how I design.
We didn’t share a language, but her offering of milk tea said everything I needed to know.
"Do you think people far away know we live here?"
A simple question that held so much longing.
Kunsang Drolkar
ཀུན་བཟང་སྒྲོལ་དཀར་
"Business is better now. I’ve learned to speak both ways."
Her life was a daily negotiation between identities — and she handled it with ease.
Yangchen Drolma
དབྱངས་ཅན་སྒྲོལ་མ་
"One day, I’ll sing on a big stage so everyone can hear me."
Her voice was small, but her dreams were loud and clear.
"We want to study, because studying is how we leave."
"I wear this for beauty, but also because my mother did too."
Sonam Tsering
སྲོག་གནས་ཚེ་རིང་
"I want to write stories... but I don’t have any books to read."
"Phones make them play more… but also help them stay connected to us."
Tradition and technology, coexisting in her gentle observation.
Tenzin Dorje
བསྟན་འཛིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་
"These golden scriptures haven’t been visited in a long time. I'm glad you came to talk."