Xinxin Li
Exploring how people experience, interpret, and access information, objects, and environments.
A practice across the physical, digital and cultural.
UX Research / Information Architecture
Reorganizing a digital humanities website around the tasks of discovering events, finding collaborators and accessing research opportunities, through research, information architecture and prototype testing.
Museum Accessibility / Visitor Experience
A course-based accessibility audit examining how visitors find, understand and use access features at the Royal Ontario Museum, with a proposed five-part action plan.
Qualitative Research / Spatial Experience
Exploring how social interactions, spatial conditions and access to guidance shape women’s comfort and participation in shared fitness environments.
Research connects the practice.
Semi-structured interviews · Visitor observation · Accessibility audits · Contextual research
Affinity mapping · Thematic analysis · Journey mapping · Content analysis · Competitive analysis
Research questions · Problem framing · Information architecture · Stakeholder analysis
Wireframing · Storyboarding · CAD · Physical and digital prototyping · Exhibition concepts
Usability testing · Prototype testing · Visitor evaluation
Research synthesis · Recommendations · Design iteration
Exhibition Design / Interpretation
A split-authorship exhibition inviting visitors to consider interpretation, curatorial authority and trust before learning which narrative was written by AI.
Museum Collections / Material Research
Designing and assembling a 3D-printed research collection through CAD modelling, fabrication coordination and protective packaging for museum material studies.
Industrial Design / Human Factors
An MFA thesis exploring pet air travel through owner interviews, journey mapping, spatial mock-ups and an adaptable carrier concept.
How visitors engage with cultural environments, exhibitions, information and objects.
How museums and designed environments can support different sensory, cognitive, linguistic and physical ways of accessing information.
How interpretation can move beyond visually dominant modes of communication.
Background
My practice grows from industrial design into human-centered design, UX research and museum studies—with visitor experience and accessibility as connecting concerns.
I am currently completing the Combined Degree Program at the University of Toronto: a Master of Information in User Experience and a Master of Museum Studies.