Carol Yu

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

BFA, Interactive Media Arts · New York, NY · GPA 3.94

• Minors: Game Design; Social Entrepreneurship; Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology

Keystone Academy, Beijing

High school, IB curriculum

TikTok, ByteDance — AI Product Design Intern

Beijing, China

• Designed the HTML editor feature for TikTok’s internal agent platform, letting operations teams generate H5 pages.
• Prototyped and designed an AIGC video-generation workflow for e-commerce ads that outperformed agency-made creatives by ~300% and drove 400+ new users per creative; later adopted as the team’s default video pipeline.
• Built and launched an AI Brand Kit feature that auto-generates brand-aligned page elements and cover images, improving visual consistency and production speed and contributing to a 120% user increase for the business unit.

PaiBox — UX Design Intern

New York · Part-time

• Built cross-platform workflows, interfaces, and interactive prototypes for an AI-powered vendor-management platform, streamlining coordination across vendors, customers, and project managers.

Nook — Product Design Intern

Remote · Part-time

• Led user research and brand styling, and worked with product managers on the gamified task, progression, and reward systems of a teen-focused AI productivity app.
• Designed AI-driven interfaces that turn user goals into personalized challenges and habit-building experiences.

Tech@NYU Dev Team — Designer & Developer

New York, NY

• Built Albert Plus, a web platform improving NYU course planning through clearer navigation and progress visualization.
• Designed and developed core tools, including a Chrome extension and course search (Figma, TypeScript, Next.js).

Freelance — Designer & Front-End Developer

Remote

• Built branding and responsive websites for four startup and non-profit clients across FinTech, non-profit, and AI — including Sweet Dreams 4 All and Global Delta Securities.

Tech X Academy — Teaching Assistant

Shanghai, China

• Led workshops for 20+ students on HCI theory, Figma, website development, and multimodal AI in an HCI bootcamp.
• Mentored winning hackathon teams on UI design, UX strategy, web development, robotics and Arduino, and multimodal AI.

WeChat Channels × AI

Solo design challenge for Tencent WeChat Channels — rethinking short-video creation with AI.

DREAMMAIL

Spatial AR interface for everyday digital tools, powered by AI-driven interaction. Built at MIT Reality Hack 2026.

Cosma Sense

Product design and frontend for a local-first, AI-powered semantic search engine for personal files.

Palette U

Personal project: a web app for storing memories in a 3D memory palace (Three.js, Blender, Express.js, SQL).

Everstream

Personal project: a 2D Unity game following a stream through four seasons, with original art and music.

interTabs

Product designer and front-end developer on a team of four: an AI-powered tab manager that generates and reorganizes browser tab groups with the OpenAI API. Reached 200+ users; published on the Chrome Web Store with interfinity Limited.

MBTI Ideal Partner

Led a five-person team to design and develop an MBTI matchmaking WeChat Mini Program that generates personalized reports. Grew to 2,000+ users and expanded into a sequel product.

MIT Reality Hack 2026

Built DREAMMAIL, a spatial AR interface for everyday digital tools.

HOF Hack 2025 — 1st Place, Best UI/UX, Best Beginner Hack

For interTabs, an AI-powered Chrome extension for tab management.

Fazier — #1 Product of the Day

interTabs, on its public launch.

Orango — Founder, Designer, Project Manager & Engineer

New York, NY

• Founded a creative studio that developed a social game platform; recruited and led a team of nine and launched three independent games.

NYU CSSA — UI/UX Designer & Developer

Design

Product design, UI/UX, product management, branding, illustration, motion graphics, video editing, game development, marketing

Research

User interviews, user & market research, rapid prototyping, prompt engineering

Design tools

Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Blender, generative AI, Framer, WebGL

Development

JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C++, C#, SQL, HTML · Unity, SwiftUI, Three.js, WebXR, VR/AR, GitHub

Languages

Chinese (native), English (fluent)