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Doris Y. is a UI/UX designer, Urban Designer and Planner, based in United States.
Selected work
Recent Design
I design social media graphics and promotional posters for events across Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Visual Direction & UI/UX
I create visual identities and UI/UX designs tailored to each client's needs and creative vision.
WZLY 91.5 FM
Website design & UI design
A home for student radio,
listening, and stories.
Visual Direction & UI/UX
I create visual identities and UI/UX designs tailored to each client's needs and creative vision.
NOGAS
Work in progress Draft beta version
A digital toolkit for suburban planning and autonomous mobility.
Design and content are still developing.
Explore the draft beta ↗Fashion review.
In progress
A space for reviews and observations on fashion.
Currently in development.
Fashion Design Portfolio
In progress
Mood Board and my vision
NOW—Moving into 2027, 2028, and Gen Z, X Y, Z
What do we want? What represents us? And who decides what our generation looks like?
My design thinking begins with observations of my own Gen Z experience. We inhabit increasingly multidimensional lives, moving between different identities, cultures, and physical and digital worlds. Yet the visual language used to represent our generation often fails to capture that complexity.
I see fashion as a way to question these representations and explore what a visual identity of our own might look like. Not a singular image of Gen Z, but one that reflects the contradictions, desires, and shifting realities of how we live today.
Influences
My visual references span the early 2000s to the present, particularly the ways fashion responds to changing cultural identities.
Fashion
- Y-3 — 2003 Collection
- Demna — Balenciaga
- Demna — Gucci Spring/Summer 2027
Architecture & Spatial Thinking
My interest in architecture and urban design also informs how I approach form, structure, and the relationship between people and their environments.
- Mexican Brutalism
- Yoshio Taniguchi
- Kazuo Shinohara
Philosophy of 空 (space) and 無 (emptiness)—compelling dialogue between traditional Japanese spatial philosophy, the structural language of timber architecture, and contemporary forms.
Current sketches
In progress
About Me
Doris Y. Yao
UI/UX Designer,
Graphic Designer
Interaction engineer
Based in Cambridge, MA,
United States
Contact
Instagram
@doriss.yao ↗
Education
2024–2027, Wellesley College,
BA Political Science and Urban Design
(2024–2027 MIT Cross-registered)
Skills
Figma
Adobe Illustrator
TouchDesigner
Python
Languages
English, Latin,
Mandarin, French