Long-term specially-appointed professor of Tongji University College of Design and Innovation

Founder of XXY Innovation

Research orientation

Interaction and experience design; design philosophy; product development and design strategy

Academic and social Post

A member of the Editorial Board of Design Issues (Journal of MIT Press)

A part-time professor and doctoral supervisor of Macau University of Science and Technology

A specially-appointed professor of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

A specially-appointed professor of Jiangnan University

A part-time professor of Shih Chien University, Taiwan

A part-time professor of Macau University of Science and Technology

A part-time professor of Tianjin University

A part-time professor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

A judge of serval international design competitions, e.g. GMark, IXDA, Red Star Award

Managing Director of China Industrial Design Association

A member of the Industrial Design Branch of China Engineering Society

Deputy Director of International Experience Design Committee (IXDC, formerly Interactive Design Committee of Guangdong Province)

Design Strategy Consultant of Changhong Innovation & Design Center

Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Academic Council of World Green Design Organization (WGDO)

Education Background

2007.05  Earned the doctoral degree in Design Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon University

2002.05  Earned the master degree in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University

2000.05  Earned the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, Oil Painting and Art History (minor) from West Virginia University

1993.07  Earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Manufacturing Technology and Equipment from Shenyang Jianzhu University

Work Experience

2021.01-present  working as a long-term specially-appointed professor at Tongji University College of Design and Innovation

2018.11-2020.12  worked as a specially-appointed professor at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

2011.12-2018.10  worked as a professor and dean at the School of Design, Jiangnan University

2005.09-2011.11  worked as an assistant professor, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2003.01-2005.05  worked as a designer at HotMetal Strategy Consulting Company in the United States

2002.08-2004.08  worked as a consultant and designer at Carnegie Mellon University

1994.09-1996.07  worked as an architect & project leader at Liaoning Huangpu Architectural Design Institute

1993.09-1994.08  worked as an assistant engineer in Jinbei GM Motors Co., Ltd.

Representative research results and works

[1] “Green Design and Sustainable Development Research” (13ZD03) Sub-project (I): Sustainable Development and Green Design, National Social Science Fund of China’s major art project, project leader of sub-project (I), 2013-16

[2] Research on Interaction Design Methodology based on International Frontier Vision (12BG055), general national social science & art project, project leader, 2012-17

[3] Research on Design Competitiveness, a key project of Chinese Academy of Engineering, the undertaker of the first sub-project (sub-project leader: academician Pan Yunhe), 2014-16

[4] China Good Design Case Collection - Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Volume, Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2014

[5] National Innovative Design Development Strategy, a major bidding project of Chinese Academy of Engineering, a main member of the project team, 2013-15

[6] The Application of Service Design to Public Affairs Management, a major philosophy and social science bidding project of Jiangnan University, 2013

[7] Viewing the Change of Life Style from the Emerging Everyday Objects, funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

[8] Products designed for Chinese people, funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

[9] Research on Chinese Lifestyle, funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

[10] Product innovation in cultural environment, funded by Procter & Gamble Headquarters

Representative works, textbooks, papers, patents and exhibitions in the latest five years

- Works, compilations, and translations

[1] Data Value and Product-oriented Design, co-author: Li Manhai, China Machine Press, 2020 (ISBN: 9787111643647)

[2] Design Issues IV, translation, Tsinghua University Press, 2017 (ISBN: 978-7-302-46490-7)

[3] Design Issues I, translation, Tsinghua University Press, 2015 (ISBN: 978-7-302-42581-6)

[4] Good Design in China: Research on the Collection of Cases of Innovative Design for Consumer Electronics and Electrical Appliances (ISBN: 978-7-5,046-6863-9), Science and Technology of China Press, 2015

Some papers:

[1] The Butterfly Effect of Design: When Lifestyle Becomes a Design Object. Packaging Engineering (CSCD), 2020, 41(6):57-67

[2] From User Experience to Experience Design. Packaging Engineering (CSCD), Issue in April 2019, 40(8):60-67

[3] Clinical, Reflective and Basic Design Research. Decoration (CSSCI), Issue 9 in 2018

[4] Positioning Service Design. Packaging Engineering (CSCD), Issue in August 2018

[5] Co-creation in Service Design and Uncertainty in Service Experience. Decoration (CSSCI), Issue 4 in 2018

[6] 3C in the Design Education Reform: Context, Content and Experience. Decoration (CSSCI), Issue 7 in 2016

[7] Three Attributes of Products. Mechanical Design (CSCD Core), Issue 6 in 2015

[8] Behavioral Logic. Decoration (CSSCI), Issue 1 in 2015

- Some papers in which he served as a responsible author or second author

[1] Quantitative Analysis of Documents in the Knowledge Visualization Research Field from 1997 to 2017. Library (CSSCI Core), Issue 7 in 2017

[2] Research on Persuasive Design Methods in Mobile Apps. Packaging Engineering (Chinese core), Issue 22 in 2017

[3] Application of Gamified Design to Induce Users’ Behavior Change. Packaging Engineering (Chinese core), Issue 20 in 2017

[4] Research on the Design of Information Conveyance in Mobile Interfaces. Packaging Engineering (Chinese core), Issue 6 in 2017

[5] Legal Value and Core Structure of Green Design. Ecological Economy (Chinese core), Issue 8 in 2017

[6] Research on the Definition of Service Design Based on Phenomenology. Decoration (CSSCI), Issue 12 in 2016

[7] Subliminal Interaction Design Based on Neuropsychology. Packaging Engineering (CSCD), Issue 10 in 2016

[8] Reflections on Service Design from Physical Banking to Internet Finance. Packaging Engineering (CSCD), Issue 8 in 2016

[9] Research on the Availability of Interfaces of Public Terminals. Packaging Engineering (CSCD), Issue 6 in 2016

[10] A Comparative Study of Functional Interaction Behavior in Smart Phone’s iOS and Android Systems. Decoration (CSSCI), Issue 4 in 2016

[11] Levels and Characteristics of Patients’ Needs for Medical Information in Medical Services. Medicine and Philosophy (CSCD), Issue 2 in 2016

[12] Design of Bank Remote Video Teller Machine Experience. Mechanical Design (CSCD core), Issue 12 in 2015

[13] Research on the Design of Human-machine Interface Interaction of Products Based on Eye Movement Tests. Mechanical Design (CSCD core), Issue 12 in 2015

[14] Research on the Influence of Information Visualization and Knowledge Visualization on Medical Decision-Making. Packaging Engineering (CSCD), Issue 10 in 2015

[15] The Status Quo of Research on User’s Implicit Measurement Methods in Product Design. Mechanical Design (CSCD core), Issue 2 in 2015

Honors and Awards

[1] 2020  Design Issues (translation) won the third prize in the 8th Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements (Humanities and Social Sciences) of Higher Education Institutions (ranked 2nd)

[2] 2019  won the “70 Chinese Designers in the 70 Years since the founding of New China, China Design Contribution Gold Medal”, Dragon Design Foundation

[3] 2018  won the second prize of National Teaching Achievement Award (ranked 2nd)

[4] 2018  won the “40 Chinese Designers in 40 Years since the Reform and Opening-up”, Dragon Design Foundation

[5] 2017  won the first prize of Jiangsu Teaching Achievement Award (ranked 1st) (the highest award in the Art Design category)

[6] 2017  named as advanced individual of returned overseas Chinese in Jiangsu Province

[7] 2015  Future Voice of Interaction Design, World Interaction Design Association

[8] 2015  Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talents of Jiangsu Province, Leading Group of Talent Work of Jiangsu Province, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and Provincial Department of Education, etc.

[9] 2014  won the silver medal of DDF Award, Dragon Design Foundation

[10] 2014  won the Chinese Ruler Cultural Gift -Silver Award of Zijin Award of Jiangsu Province

[11] 2013  China Top 10 Industrial Design Education, China Industrial Design Association

[12] 2012  Wuxi Leading Talents of Social Undertakings, Wuxi Municipal People’s Government

Recent academic activities

- Served as a judge in some design competitions

[1] DDF Top Ten Award, Dragon Design Foundation, 2014 & 2017

[2] IXDA, International Interaction Design Association, 2014 & 2016

[3] Hong Kong Smart Design Awards (HKSDA), 2016 & 2017

[4] GMark, Japan Good Design Award, 2014

[5] Product Design Award of the Canton Fair, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, 2013

[6] China Excellent Industrial Design Award, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 2012

[7] China Red Star Award, 2012, 2014, and 2016

[8] Design competitions of Visual China, Haier, Lenovo, Dido, Sanyo, Whirlpool and other enterprises

- Part-time jobs or visits

[1] 2016  A part-time professor of Tianjin University

[2] 2015  A part-time professor of Macao University of Science and Technology

[3] 2009.12  A part-time professor of Shenyang University of Technology

[4] 2009.12  he was employed by the Master Lecture Program (Creating Breakthrough Products) of Beijing Technology and Business University.

[5] 2008.10  he was employed by the Department of Information Design, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, responsible for teaching Design Sociology

[6] 2008.07  he was invited by the Department of Industrial Design of the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University to teach two courses, i.e. Integrated New Product Development and Design Thinking, for the Skyworth Master of Engineering Class

[7] 2007.06  he was employed by the Overseas Scholar Lecture Program of Tsinghua University and taught graduate and Industrial Design juniors the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University for two weeks

[8] 2007.01  he was invited to hold a workshop at Beihang University

[9] 2004.06  he, together with Craig Vogel, former chairman of Industrial Designers Society of America, held two “Integrated New Product Development” training classes at Tsinghua University

- Some keynote speeches

[1] “The First Principles of Design, a speech given at the closing ceremony of AE4: Data-driven Modeling and Design for Architecture and Environmental Integration, Vienna, Austria, 2019

[2] “Humanity and Physical Systems in Experience”, a speech given at the opening ceremony of Huawei User Experience Conference 2019, Shenzhen, 2019

[3] “Technology-Driven Organizational Innovation”, a speech given at the opening ceremony of TTF Trends Forum, Guangzhou, 2017

[4] “Service Design: from Efficiency to Meaning”, SDN Shanghai, Shanghai, 2019

[5] “Reflections on Opinion Leaders”, TEDx, Chengdu, 2018

[6] “Service Design”, a speech given at the closing ceremony of China Service Design Conference 2018, Beijing, 2018

[7] “The Choice of Organizations”, a speech given at the opening ceremony of the International Design Conference of Design in Organizations, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017

[8] “Technology-driven Organizational Innovation”, the 22nd National Industrial Design Academic Conference, Guangzhou, 2017

[9] “Technology Transformation and Organizational Transformation”, a speech given at the opening ceremony of TTF Trends Forum, Shenzhen, 2017

[10] “Strategic Positioning of Experience Design”, Alibaba UCAN Design Conference, Hangzhou, 2017

[11] “Different Origins and Methods of Service Design”, Hong Kong Service Design Association Summit, Hong Kong, 2016

[12] “The Power of Symbols”, TEDx, Chongqing, 2016

[13] “From User Experience to Experience”, a speech given at the opening ceremony of IXDC Education Submit, Finland, 2016

[14] “Meaningful and Memorable Experience”, a speech given at the opening ceremony of IXDC, Beijing, 2016

[15] “From User Experience to Experience”, TEDx, Shanghai, 2015

[16] “Education and Teaching of Industrial Design”, World Chinese Design Conference and National Annual Conference of Industrial Design Education, Changsha, 2015

[17] “Creating Classics”, Review and Prospect of Modern Design Education in China, Wuxi, 2015

[18] “Attributes and Qualities of Experience”, a speech given at the closing ceremony of UX Australia Conference, Sydney, 2014

[19] “Interaction Design: From Physical Logic to Behavioral Logic”, National Annual Conference on Industrial Design Education, Guangzhou, 2013

[20] “Design, Economy and Organizational Change”, Annual Conference of the Industrial Design Branch of Chinese Engineering Society, Shenyang, 2013

[21] “New Fields, New Problems, New Countermeasures”, Redesign of Design Education, Wuxi, 2013

[22] “Moments of Confusion”, “Designers and Books” Summit, New York, 2012

[23] “Users’ Expectations and Enterprises’ Value Claims”, International Summit on Interaction Design, Chengdu, 2012

[24] “Interaction Design and Organizational Innovation”, China Interaction Design Experience Week, Beijing, 2012

[25] Universal Properties of Complex Things”, National Annual Conference on Industrial Design Education, Tianjin, 2012

[26] “From Hands of Individuals to the Hands of All”, IDSA National Conference, Boston, 2012

[27] “Behavioral Nature of Interaction Design”, Biennial Meeting of International Conference on Interaction Design, Hong Kong, 2011

[28] 2010.05  he was invited to give a speech titled Design and Business, 6th Jeju Forum, Jeju, ROK

[29] 2010.12  he gave a keynote speech titled the Neglected Nature of Interaction, the First China Interaction Design Experience Day, Guangzhou

[30] 2010.10  he gave a keynote speech titled Defining Interaction, 2010 National Industrial Design Education Annual Conference, Tianjin

[31] 2009.10  he gave a keynote speech titled Interaction Design: The Frontier of Design Education, International Conference on Interaction Design (ICID), Beijing, 2009

[32] 2009.06  he was invited to give a speech titled Information Structure and Visualization at the Annual Conference on Graphic Design Education in China, Dalian

[33] 2008.09  he was invited to give a keynote speech at IDSA Annual Conference, Phoenix, USA

[34] 2008.09  he was invited to give a speech at China International Industrial Design Summit Forum held in Ningbo

[35] 2007.12  he was invited to give a speech at 2007 Annual Conference on the Work of Presidents and Deans of Design Schools and Departments, Guangzhou

[36] 2007.10  he was invited to give a keynote speech titled Product Innovation in the Cultural Context and discuss about “teaching foreign students” at the first Joint Annual Conference of World Federation of Industrial Designers & Industrial Designers Society of America in 2007, San Francisco

[37] 2006.12  he was invited give a speech titled Related Design at 2006 National Annual Conference on Industrial Design Education, Harbin

[38] 2005.04  he was invited give a speech titled Globalization and Design at the Industrial Designers Society of America’s Central Region Annual Conference, Cleveland