Works, stories and experiments across design, research and everyday observation.

关于设计、研究与日常观察的作品、故事和实验。

Selected Work ↓


Subway Hands

地铁手

2019

An experimental book exploring touch, distance, and human behavior in Beijing's subway system.

Subway Hands hero image

An archive of growing up under Beijing's smog- a book, and an interactive installation.

Beijing skyline under severe smog
Beijing skyline on a clear blue-sky day

Sun Moon Beijing

日月北京

2019

A photography project documenting Beijing's sky — contrasting blue-sky days with smog-covered ones.

Sun Moon Beijing typographic cover with smog background

Blind Vlogger 🫣

2021

A short film questioning whether we live inside social media's bubble, seeing only a curated fragment instead of the full picture.

Blind Vlogger project cover

Tone

2023

An AI plug-in concept that nurtures empathy in online text communication by revealing diverse interpretations of your messages.

Tone project hero

Kitchen Impossible

厨房不可能任务

2025

A ramen-making training simulator built with AI vibe coding, based on real kitchen experience at a Japanese restaurant in the Netherlands.

Kitchen Impossible hero

2024–2025

Living Between Places

Beijing → Stockholm → Amsterdam → Beijing

Sometimes the most important project is not a project. Between countries, jobs, languages and homes, I spent these years observing, learning and trying different ways of living. These experiences continue to shape how I see people, cities and everyday life.

Archived ↓


Cloudsophy

A poster about me — who I am and how I interact with the world, expressed through clouds.

2020


SEEME

An educational app that helps blind users build social confidence through non-visual feedback and community.

2019


IKEA Undercover

A self-initiated customer journey map created during a winter break cashier job at IKEA CITY Beijing.

2019


Illustrate My Chinese Name

20 hand-drawn ink illustrations exploring the ideographic nature of Chinese characters — starting from my own name.

2018


Hue Play

Bold Photoshop exercises in hue contrast and seasonal color — fruits, shoes, and a volcano.

2017


About ↓


Ruoyun Wang is a designer, creative researcher and visual storyteller based in Beijing.

In the past few years, she has lived across China, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, collecting stories, images and questions along the way. Her work spans UX design, visual communication, writing and everyday experiments. She is interested in how people behave, communicate, adapt, and create meaning within social and cultural environments. Rather than focusing on a single medium, she uses whatever form best helps tell a story.

王若芸是一名生活在北京的设计师、创意研究者与视觉叙事者。

过去几年间,她曾在中国、瑞典、挪威和荷兰生活,一路收集故事、影像与问题。她的工作横跨 UX 设计、视觉传达、写作与日常实验。她关注人在社会与文化环境中的行为、沟通、适应与意义生成。她不局限于单一媒介,而是选择最适合讲述故事的形式。