Yiqing Tian is a digital interaction designer, storyteller, and researcher specializing in VR/AR experiences, game design, UI/UX, and 3D narrative.

Projects

Her Writing VR roaming experience, performance

Her Writing is a VR immersive performance combining dance, visuals, and music to express feminine writing. Using fluid visuals, it explores the female body as a site of transformation, challenging the concept of a "perfect body" while examining bodily autonomy against capitalist objectification.

Purification A VR journey

Purification is a VR experience set in a voxel metropolis transformed from polluted monochrome to vibrant nature, where flourishing plant life cleanses the urban environment, illustrating the harmony between technology and nature.

Seed Plan 2D pixel visual game

Seed Plan is a non-linear 2D pixel game set in a late 21st-century dystopia where environmental collapse has forced humanity into isolated pockets. Players explore various rooms guided by a "system," piecing together clues about "The Nest" - a final mission by scientists seeking humanity's survival in ocean depths.

Fold AR Interaction Game

Fold is an AR interaction game where players move chess pieces to manipulate and fold light patterns, inspired by the principles of DNA origami encryption. The light-folding gameplay mirrors the molecular folding process, creating an interdisciplinary bridge between gaming and science.

Phytolalia Installation

Phytolalia is an installation visualizing plant communication through rhythmic lighting, illustrating how plants interact via air and fungi networks. By highlighting plants as intelligent, social entities, it challenges the perceived divide between cities and nature.

Sound City Sonic storytelling, concept design

Sound City is an interactive project where participants record construction site sounds, which are transformed into visual elements on a website to collectively build a virtual cityscape, reframing urban noise as artistic expression.

NOINCITE UI Design, Concept Interaction Design

NO-INCITE is an emotion-aware intervention plugin that helps users maintain composure while engaging with social media content. Through interactive sound and motion design tailored to Chinese text patterns, it creates moments of pause when users experience heightened emotions or impulsive sharing behaviors.

Crimson Traces Data narrative, 3D scene design

Crimson Traces is a data-driven spatial narrative that reveals the hidden reality of intimate partner violence through evocative visual metaphors, transforming global and local statistics into an immersive journey from universal patterns to individual cases in China.

Education