Design Researcher & Designer.
I utilize design thinking and qualitative & quantitative research methods to collaborate with researchers from Design, Engineering, Education, Astrophysics, Art, and Sustainability to inspire more inclusive design.
I am passionate to implement Co-design and Participatory Design through facilitating user-centered design workshops, brainstorming, conducting interviews & surveys, prototyping, and usability testing with users and stakeholders.
I am excited to inspire evidence-driven design and catalyze the positive interaction between users, designers, product teams, community members, decision-makers, and any other stakeholders.
Research Projects
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# User Centered Design
# Participatory Design Workshop
# In-depth Interview
# Observation
# Community Engagement
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As a researcher in a live studio project, I implemented Participatory Design with the Mo’ili’ili community in Honolulu together with design students from ASU to redesign Old Stadium Park. I recruited participants, organized and facilitated a community engagement workshop (50+ people); and 7 pop-up design conversations (100+ people); I interviewed, observed participants, and published the research paper at Participatory Design Conference (PDC2020), Manizales, Colombia.
View paper: Xie et al, 2020 - A Participatory Design Case Study in Environmental Design Education
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# Correlational Research
# Statistical analysis
# Co-design
# Design Practice
I led the quantitative research project utilizing mixed-research methods and software (Python, MAXQDA) analyzed 638 job postings across design practices in the U.S. job market, and identifies relevant and important co-design skills that employers expect from designers. This research has been successfully presented and published at the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR2021), Hong Kong, China.
View paper: Xie et al, 2021 - An exploratory study of co-design skills in the U.S. job postings
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In a User Experience Design & Research course, I conducted surveys, card sorting, A/B testing, and usability testing to design and prototyped a used goods trading platform for Chinese students in the U.S.
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# Transdisciplinary Collaboration
# Design Practice
In this research paper, I collaborated with interdisciplinary researchers and we identified good practices for Transdisciplinary Collaboration. We presented and published the research at International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2020), Montreal, Canada:
View paper: Translating disciplinary practices for trans-sentient collaboration
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#Behavioral Theory
# Design Workshop
# In-depth Interview
# Observation
# Sustainability
In a research project, I collaborated with the team and organized design workshops, recruited and interviewed participants, and conducted qualitative data analysis to learn how do designers integrate behavioral theory into design practices for sustainability. We published the research at the Design Research Society Conference (DRS2020), Brisbane, Australia:
View paper: Incorporating behavioral theory in design ideation for changing sustainability behaviors
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An individual coursework of qualitative research methods for design
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