I once spent four years staring at dirt.

I once spent four years staring at dirt.

I once spent four years staring at dirt.

As a ceramic artist in Seoul, I learned that clay remembers everything.
How hard you pressed, how long you waited, whether you were patient or rushed.
The material doesn't lie. That obsession with what's underneath stuck with me.

As a ceramic artist in Seoul, I learned that clay remembers everything.
How hard you pressed, how long you waited, whether you were patient or rushed.
The material doesn't lie. That obsession with what's underneath stuck with me.

As a ceramic artist in Seoul, I learned that clay remembers everything.
How hard you pressed, how long you waited, whether you were patient or rushed.
The material doesn't lie. That obsession with what's underneath stuck with me.

Now I design digital products, but I still work the same way.
I zoom in until I find the grain. At museums, I photograph artworks so close that
no one recognizes them, just texture, just the part that made me feel something.
That's my version of seeing.

Now I design digital products, but I still work the same way.
I zoom in until I find the grain. At museums, I photograph artworks so close that
no one recognizes them, just texture, just the part that made me feel something.
That's my version of seeing.

Now I design digital products, but I still work the same way.
I zoom in until I find the grain. At museums, I photograph artworks so close that
no one recognizes them, just texture, just the part that made me feel something.
That's my version of seeing.

I'm drawn to core problems, raw materials, and people who don't perform.
If you want polished small talk, I'm probably not your person.
But if you want to dig into why something isn't working, I'll bring the shovel.

I'm drawn to core problems, raw materials, and people who don't perform.
If you want polished small talk, I'm probably not your person.
But if you want to dig into why something isn't working, I'll bring the shovel.

I'm drawn to core problems, raw materials, and people who don't perform.
If you want polished small talk, I'm probably not your person.
But if you want to dig into why something isn't working, I'll bring the shovel.

Experience

AI-driven enterprise platform · 0→1 founding design member

AI-driven enterprise platform · 0→1 founding design member

Product Designer, Norric (AI Fintech Startup, NY) | Sep-Dec 2025

Cross-functional flows · Design system from scratch

Cross-functional flows · Design system from scratch

Product Designer, Placera (Job Search Platform, NY) | May-Aug 2025

Physical product UX research · Market expansion

Physical product UX research · Market expansion

Product Designer, Younglim (Furniture manufacture/Sales, Korea) | 2020-2023

Education

NYU Tisch Interactive Telecommunications | MPS (2026)

NYU Tisch Interactive Telecommunications | MPS (2026)

  • Focus on HCI, interactive design, physical computing.

  • Head of Mentorship, UX Club NYU.

  • Research in assistive tech for blind teenagers (Client: Helen Keller Services).

  • Product designer for NYU school of dentistry's internal service.

Seoul National University | BFA (2020)

Seoul National University | BFA (2020)

  • Ceramics, Design & Crafts.

  • Graduation exhibition main artist; class representative.