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Emerson Lo

Currently designing at … with a love for storytelling and user-centric visual crafts.

Portrait of me in a HackDavis Director shirt, autumn trees behind

Info

I’m a product designer
based in Los Angeles, California.

My interest in design and craft started early. Growing up, I took classes in ceramics, silkscreen printing, photography and video editing at ArtCenter College of Design and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. That’s where I first began exploring art, and where I fell in love with making things by hand.

At UC Davis, I kept following that pull toward creativity and design, and found something new alongside it: a fascination with how people think, perceive and interact with the things around them, especially in digital spaces. As technology keeps evolving, I want to build intuitive products that are both functional and beautiful, that improve people’s lives, and that make the time we spend with screens feel more humane.

Me in a hoodie among the lit lamp posts of Urban Light at LACMA

Education

University of California, Davis

College of Letters and Science

2022 – 2026

Bachelor of Science in Computational Cognitive Science

Me and friends in graduation stoles on the UC Davis sign at dusk

Things I love to do

Me sitting in the snow strapped into a snowboard
Snowboarding
Two raw oysters on a metal tray, each with a pair of toothpicks
Eating oysters
Two friends dribbling basketballs on a street at night, lit by car headlights
Basketball
Framed paintings piled on a table at a flea market
Looking at paintings

Most Likely Listening to…

Spotify card: my all-time most streamed artist is Yeat, with 22,786 minutes listened

Design Philosophy

Cultivated Intuition

I believe that strong design intuition is developed through a diverse, interdisciplinary exploration of the world around us. Traveling, absorbing new environments, and experiencing different cultures profoundly shape how the human brain perceives, understands, and ultimately produces design. Beyond screens and interfaces, observing how things look, feel, and function in the physical world helps me develop a deeper cognitive intuition for what feels right. I’m not afraid of trying new things, always strive toward being ‘best-in-class’, and always strive to be curious about the unknown.

Intelligent Interfaces

The future of personal computing is astounding to me as our interfaces seamlessly blend with and understand our daily intentions. As artificial intelligence advances, I believe it will fundamentally elevate technology from a static tool into a proactive, adaptive partner. This shift transforms design by allowing us to craft highly personalized experiences that anticipate user needs rather than just reacting to them. Ultimately, I am curious about how AI can help us interact more fluidly with the physical world, making complex technology feel completely natural and invisible.

Circumnavigate

Been to

  • Japan
  • England
  • France
  • Spain
  • Portugal
  • Italy
  • Greece
  • Canada
  • Mexico

Bucket list

  • China
  • Vietnam
  • Iceland
  • Netherlands
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Peru
  • Singapore
Me standing on the rocks in front of the Parthenon
Athens, Greece
Crowds and neon billboards at the Shibuya crossing at night
Shibuya, Tokyo
The carved stone cloister of the Jerónimos Monastery
Lisbon, Portugal