Zihao Ni

About

Three short paragraphs: where you started (environmental design at Tsinghua), why you moved into product design, and what you want to work on next. Write it the way you'd introduce yourself to a team.

Now: what you're building or learning at the moment, in one or two sentences.

Education

MSc Disability, Design and Innovation, UCL

2026 to 2027

Department of Computer Science, with the Global Disability Innovation Hub

BFA Environmental Design, Tsinghua University

2021 to 2025

Academy of Arts and Design. GPA 3.80 of 4.0, Outstanding Graduation Project

Publication

Everyday Furniture as Tangible Interfaces: Implicit Living Room Interaction and Control

2025

Ni, Z. and Li, Z. ICADI 2025, Tianjin. ACM

Tools

Figma, Adobe CC, Rhino, KeyShot

Interaction and UI design, prototyping, service blueprints

Codex, Claude, ESP32, TouchDesigner

AI-assisted coding, agent workflows, hardware prototypes