Muxing Chen

- Collaborated with researchers to refine storylines and visual effects through iterative website mockups.
- Designed and developed a scrollytelling website to present findings from an urban studies research paper.

- Created a concept map of Figma to provide users with a clear overview of the application.
- Developed conceptual models of Figma, Sketchpad and early versions of Illustrator to illustrate the evolution of 2D drawing applications.
- Conducted extensive research to develop a more robust theory for design systems.

- Performed topic modeling and visual analytics on the NSF awards dataset using BERTopic and Tableau to identify research topic trends.
- Prototyped a streamlined interface to improve award search efficiency and user experience.

- Designed visualizations for patient self-reported data and two interface prototypes tailored for patients and clinicians to support health data tracking and review.
- Proposed a rendering pipeline to generate data narratives that walk patients through their health information.

- Formulated a framework that identifies ten composition patterns for combining multiple visualizations to form a cohesive whole (composite visualization) in the same visual space, based on spatial and data relations between component visualizations.

JavaScript, D3.js, p5.js, GSAP (GreenSock), Svelte, SvelteKit, React, HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS, Python, R

Tableau, Observable, Flourish, Datawrapper, RAWGraphs

Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Webflow

- Developed and implemented an evaluation model to analyze performance and growth across 71 members.
- Led a 10-member committee to organize a forum attended by 200+ participants from multiple universities in Chengdu.

- Prepared promotional materials that facilitated connections between local children and worldwide education sponsors.