Hi, thanks for coming in! I'm Nuri, and I'm fascinated by how technology influences our lives and brings about significant cultural changes. I've created new products with emerging technologies across transportation, healthcare, and cybersecurity, and I have experience tackling complex and ambiguous problems with cross-functional partners. I aspire to design experiences that make our lives and work healthier and more fun.

Previously, I worked as UX Director at Lacework Edge (now acquired by Fortinet), where I designed an enterprise cybersecurity product. I also designed features to improve user privacy at Messenger, created a new AI-enabled eye screening service and designed data-driven diabetes care at Verily, designed the driver app, marketplace products, and self-driving platform at Uber, co-founded a news snacking startup, and worked on projects for research institutes.

I am very interested in how people learn and creative ways to foster learning. Before working as a designer, I studied education for my undergraduate degree and worked in the field for around five years. Through that experience, I developed a deeper understanding of how people learn, which has been instrumental in designing new experiences with evolving technologies that are easy to learn.

I have an MFA in Interaction Design from California College of the Arts and a BS in Education from Korea University. As a hobby, I enjoy woodworking. In my leisure time, I love creating art, exploring new destinations, and cherishing precious moments with my little son and my charming mathematician husband.

Previous Talks

• Speaker, Koreans in Silicon Valley, Seoul, 2018 YouTube 🎥

• Speaker, Autonomous driving UX forum at Hyundai Motors, 2018 

• Panelist, Women in STEM at Lowell high school, SF, 2018 

• Speaker, UX world, Seoul, 2017

• Speaker, Data Visualization, Boston, 2017

• Panelist, SXSW interactive / intelligent future, Austin, 2017

• Panelist, SXSW interactive / intelligent future / ‘One Robot Doesn’t Fit All’, Austin, 2016

Human-Robot Interaction Research

• My paper in Human-Robot Interaction published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). I was the first author with two professors as co-authors. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2559636.2563692

• My SXSW panel on human-robot interaction with other experts sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP46819

• On ADAS that I contributed to. The authors are the scientists I worked closely with. https://www.academia.edu/8495957/Personal_Navi_Benefits_of_an_Augmented_Reality_Navigational_Aid_Using_a_See_Thru_3D_Volumetric_HUD
  

Patents granted

• Pedestrian intersection alert system https://patents.google.com/patent/US9588340B2/en

• Arranging a transport service for a user based on the estimated time of arrival of the user https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160055605A1