Tiange Wang

I wanted to be a designer in my childhood. I simply enjoy exploring and creating new things. My education back in design school has shaped my design focus on human and constant exposure to creative design from peers and industry experience is the driving force for me to continue on this path.

I like digital design that’s interactive that utilizes various forms of feedback, i.e. human biofeedback including heart rate, EEG etc. My primary focus has consistently revolved around the enhancement of social well-being through the application of multimedia digital design.

A "good" design would be user-centered and provides unique, novel and meaningful experience.

My creative style always starts from "ungroundedness" but gradually ground it to real human interaction with tangible interface. The main characteristics for my creative style or what I care the most are creative design ideas and novel human interaction paradigms.

From my experience, my design process is deeply rooted in everyday life. A design work usually starts with some speculations on existing user experiences (how we interact with the surroundings). Through further exploration and brainstorming, I come up with some ideas for specific audiences and then I craft the design with multimedia/technology. Last but not the least, I will make sure the design is delivered as expected to the audience through some design iterations.

Art gallery, exhibitions and everyday experience.

I’m very excited about multi-sensory immersive digital design, especially in the virtual reality environment. I have seen various projects that incorporated olfactory, sound, touch and other sensory in addition to the immersive digital design and I found the experience to be very unique and compelling.

It’s a valuable affirmation for our creative work and we are honored to be selected as part of this award distinction, especially as independent designers. A shout-out to my amazing teammate Tiange. We will continue exploring and delivering creative work.

SinkInSync presents the design and prototype of a VR-based cross-person EEG neurofeedback platform. This generative VR platform uses one user’s brainwave data to procedurally render 3D scenes and passively displays visual cues that are synchronized with the real-time brainwave frequency to another user. We found this project very interesting and ground-breaking as we aim to explore the potential of VR as an avenue for augmenting cognitive and emotional social connectedness via externally-induced brainwave synchronization between pairs of individuals. The technologies in fostering interpersonal connections without using the common tool of speech is our main focus in the project. How biometric data could add to the channels of communication and help improve accessibility is a relatively untouched area and we believe our project could be inspiring for the creative industry.

The biggest challenge with this project is the 3D scene design phase. How to embed neuro signals in a visual, artistic way without impairing the frequency functionality of the brainwave is pretty challenging. Also, how to enhance meaningful interaction between pairs through gamification is another interesting yet challenging part of the project.

Winning a professional award means a lot to my career as an independent creative technologist. It provided motivation for me to continue exploring creative design with emerging technology like AI etc. and focus more on inspiring interaction paradigms.

A-ha moment, dynamism, imagination.

For me, the evolution of the creative industry is always closely tied with the development of technology and biology. Nowadays we are witnessing an explosion of AI technology and creativity seems to be constantly redefined by technology, so I would see the creative industry and technology are ??closely interlinked and complementary in the coming years.

Check out the fabulous work of others on the website, discover what intrigues you most and figure out your own creative process. Keep iterating and make sure the design is well delivered to the audience.

Checking out resources like new technology, newly published articles and creative work from awards would be helpful.

Go with your gut feelings.

I am always inspired by the talented colleagues in school and from the industry. I like visiting exhibitions, browsing creative design work online, reading articles to get exposed to the inspiring design prompts and new technologies.

I believe interest and passion are the key to success. Always keep the passion for exploring new things and don't hesitate to get your hands dirty!