designer · developer · tokyo

Yanwen

I design and build multilingual websites and products.

Designer and developer in Tokyo. From UX to production code, shipped solo, in English, 日本語, and 中文.Designer & developer in Tokyo.
Creating in English, 日本語, and 中文.

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Selected work

Mizuki Travel

Trilingual marketing site for a Japan tourism company, serving guests in three languages.

Sole designer and developer

Live in EN, 日本語, and 中文 at mizukitravel.com

Web
Next.js
i18n

Daijoubu

AI app that helps foreigners in Japan understand official mail and paperwork.

Sole designer and developer

1st place, AI Meets Her hackathon

AI
Product
Web

The Tale We Drew

A storybook adventure where your sketches become 3D objects that help you find a way forward.

Developer · Four Otters (4-person team)

Finalist · Tokyo AI (TAI) | OpenAI 100-Hour Game Builder Challenge

Game
Godot
AI

UCSB Research Computing and Data

UX redesign and Drupal development for UC Santa Barbara Library’s research computing platform.

Sole UX designer and developer

+20% average session duration after redesign

UX
Web
Drupal

13 more projects in the Coding archive, and 3 UX case studies. Or bring me a new one: let's talk.

I studied applied mathematics and art at UC Santa Barbara, and I have worked across product management, QA engineering, data analysis, and full-stack development. The same hands that mixed indigo and cochineal dyes now design and ship software. That mix is the point: I care about how things work and how they feel.

More about me

Harmonic Hormones drawing of rows of faces with varied expressions

Playground

Dyeing, drawing, and experiments that keep the work interesting.

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Let's build something

Freelance projects, collaborations, and interesting problems. I usually reply within a day.

Taking on freelance projects now. Open to the right full-time role too.

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