San Diego, CA
Open to 2027 product design roles
Hi, I'm Christina — an aspiring product designer studying Cognitive Science (Design & Interaction) at UC San Diego. I pair research with craft so products feel effortless to use.
psst — my case studies are down here ↓click me · 1/7
Selected work
ACM project · Spring 2026
Planning large group trips are difficult, discover trending destinations, save money, time and communicate with ease using PackD.
COGS 127 · UC San Diego · Spring 2026
Young adults are having difficulty budgeting their grocery money for the week, let's make sure they don't overspend.
Hackathon project · Apr 4 – 5 · 2-day hackathon
This technical interview agent elevates your pre-interview experience — a live, voice-driven AI interviewer that watches you code and gives feedback.
Design Frontiers · May 9 – 10 · 2-day design-a-thon
Dignify San Diego women's shelters with a sleek, innovative shelter room design that ensures comfort, privacy and — most importantly — safety.
Roles and projects outside my case studies.
Product Design & Marketing Intern · MixBash · Tokyo
I spent summer 2026 in Tokyo as a Product Design and Marketing intern at MixBash, a Y Combinator startup.
Project Designer · CSES · UC San Diego
A mockup hackathon page for UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering Society, designed in Figma with generated assets.
Research Assistant · Mental Health in Design Lab · UC San Diego
I support the lab's research through qualitative analysis.
Just for fun
A Roblox game built to expand my AI skill set. I connected Roblox's MCP servers to Codex to lay down the physical spaces, used Claude to fix bugs, add widgets and build a sub-server players can teleport into, and drew the cartoony thumbnail in Procreate.
A concept for Google Search: each time you search a new country, you unlock its national tree stamp to place anywhere on your search page — and Google plants one tree seed to help fight deforestation and forest fires.
Where I've been
A little about me
I'm a 4th-year transfer student and Regents Scholar at UC San Diego, majoring in Cognitive Science with a specialization in Design & Interaction. I'm drawn to product design because it sits right where my two interests meet: understanding how people think, and making things that fit how they actually behave.
My path runs through research labs, student design teams, hackathons and a summer in Tokyo at MixBash, a YC startup. Today I design with PMC, mentor one of ACM Projects' design teams and do qualitative analysis at the Mental Health in Design Lab.
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