"Design is where innovation and usability colides."

Hi, I am Yilin Chen, also known as Eddy, a first-year graduate student at Northwestern Universitystudying Engineering Design Innovation. My background is in Information Science at the University of Washington focused on Human Computer Interaction. I am learning various skills such as service design, physical and digital product design.

With a strong foundation in user research, and many hands-on project experiences, I made every effort to combine all the knowledge and was thrilled to apply them to the real world, but where? I'd say design is where innovation and usability collide, and is where I belong to solve real-world problems.

As a designer, I touch both the rational and organic world. In the rational world, I apply all my knowledge in education, focusing on doing user research, design thinking, design system, and ethics... while in the organic world, everything is fresh and I keep hunting for new ideas, bringing innovations and diversity into the design.