Yihyun Lim

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Assistant Professor of Practice, Design Strategy @ USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy
Cambridge, MA, US
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Yihyun Lim is an Assistant Professor of Practice at USC Iovine and Young Academy. Her research interests lies in creating value-driven experiences with various forms of interactions, from adaptive materials to ambient intelligences. Yihyun brings together behavioral research and human-centered design methods to situate emerging networked technologies in the current and future societies. Prior to joining USC, Yihyun led MIT Civic Design Initiative and MIT Design Lab. As the director of MIT Design Lab, she led a multidisciplinary group of researchers, engineers, and designers to drive design innovation across various industry sectors from consumer products to sportswear and banking. Prior to serving the director role, she was the associate director and research associate at the lab, leading research projects with global companies for number of years. While at MIT, she was also a lecturer in interaction design. She also co-taught MIT Professional Workshop course, 'Innovation Beyond the Buzzword'. She has co-chaired the eleventh edition of DeSForM Conference, Design and Semantics of Form and Movement. Titled 'Beyond Intelligence', the conference explored implications and challenges of emerging technologies and complex intelligence systems in the practice of design. Her collaborative design research work has been exhibited at Milan Design Week 2018-2019 (Puma Biodesign), Ars Electronica (Art of Time Killing), and Design Museum London (Sneakers Unboxed). She serves as guest critics in design and architecture studios, and is frequently invited to speak at international sponsored events and conferences and leads innovation workshops for global corporate companies and academic institutions throughout the world.She is a founding member of Innovation by Design, a consultancy based in Boston and Milan, that focuses on strategic design, value research and experience prototyping. She continues to serve as an active member of IXD, working on consulting projects with global companies. An architect by training, Yihyun practiced architecture in San Francisco, Seoul, and New York. She received her Master of Architecture degree from MIT, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture/city and regional planning from University of California, Berkeley.Please reach out if you would like to discuss opportunities. yihyun@usc.edu

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USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy

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Assistant Professor of Practice, Design Strategy
Cambridge, MA, US
Yihyun Lim Work Experience Details
  • Usc Jimmy Iovine And Andre Young Academy
    Assistant Professor Of Practice, Design Strategy
    Usc Jimmy Iovine And Andre Young Academy
    Cambridge, Ma, Us
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  • Usc Jimmy Iovine And Andre Young Academy
    Assistant Professor Of Practice, Design
    Usc Jimmy Iovine And Andre Young Academy Aug 2021 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, United States
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  • Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Research Affiliate
    Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Aug 2021 - Present
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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  • D.Fluence
    Co-Founder, Principle
    D.Fluence Sep 2020 - Present
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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  • Mit Civic Design Initiative
    Director/Lead Researcher
    Mit Civic Design Initiative Mar 2020 - Present
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  • Emlyon Business School
    Visiting Professor
    Emlyon Business School Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
    Paris Area, France
    I'm teaching a short, intensive course of 'Principles of User Experience Design' to incoming cohort of Data Science and Management students.
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  • Mit Design Lab
    Director
    Mit Design Lab Jan 2018 - Aug 2020
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Leading multi-disciplinary team on human-centered research, and design-driven innovation across industries at MIT Design Lab. I'm responsible for defining research direction, scouting talents, running research, as well as Lab outreach through invited talks and exhibitions. At MIT, I co-teach graduate student course (Designing Interactions), and MIT's professional education course (Innovation Beyond Buzzword) every summer. I have also taught numerous workshops including 'Principles of User Experience' at Em-Lyon School of Business in Paris, Design Thinking & Innovation workshop for Globo.com in Rio de Janeiro, and also for the Prime Ministers Office of UAE through MIT PE Short-courses. Below is a selection of my roles and activities as Director at MIT Design Lab.- Create and develop research framework/plan for teams to undertake.- Develop and apply design-thinking based, human-centered approach methodologies to various industry projects.- Recruit researchers across MIT departments to form multi-disciplinary teams.- Supervise undergraduate and graduate researchers on variety of projects.- Design and run brainstorming sessions to generate ideas and bring insights to actions.- Develop and direct appropriate mode of storytelling (including fidelity of protoypes) to best convey proposed concepts and vision. - Facilitate communication to manage expectations and deliverables with project sponsors.- Coordinate, organize, and run events such as stakeholder workshops, hackathons, seminars and conferences.More information on the projects and types of innovation research work can be found on the website: https://design-lab.mit.edu/
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  • Mit Design Lab
    Associate Director
    Mit Design Lab Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
    Cambridge, Ma Usa
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  • Mit Design Lab
    Senior Research Associate / Design Research Lead
    Mit Design Lab Jan 2013 - May 2017
    Cambridge, Ma
    At Design Lab (formerly MIT Mobile Experience Lab), as design research associate I focus in designing innovation by making user experiences tangible through the merging of physical and digital design. I lead multiple projects on various topics, from researching digital fabrication/crafts for artisans to designing a branch of the future, from concept development to full service/interaction design. I also design and run body storming workshops, as well as hackathons and makeathons for students, local community, and sponsor organizations. Currently I'm leading a research observatory on millennial behaviors on money and banking. _Branch of the FutureWhat is the future of the banking branch when most in-branch services can be done remotely? I led a team of researchers from concept development to full prototyping of both physical/architectural and digital experience. The project was extensively explored through multiple workshop sessions in Brazil, including a Bodystorming and Service Experience Workshop in a full-scale prototype of the space built by our team._Innovation for ArtisansIs tradition ready for innovation? How can we innovate artisan's hand craft process with digital design and fabrication tools? I led a team of researchers and worked closely with four artisan companies in Florence to find ways to integrate the new tools with tradition. During the first phase of the project, we also researched various materials, from conductive ink to self-actuating fibers for potential use in creating user-inspired interactive products. _Make/Florence Makeathon In this 3-day event, we invited team of designers/ craftsmen/ engineers/ strategists to design a new souvenir for Florence. Emphasis on user interaction and digital experience through the physical object of a souvenir. I was in charge of organizing and leading the workshop.
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  • Desform : Design And Semantics Of Form And Movement 2019
    Conference Chair
    Desform : Design And Semantics Of Form And Movement 2019 Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Conference chair for bi-annual international academic conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement. This eleventh edition of conference was hosted by MIT Design Lab, on the topic of "Beyond Intelligence", to inquire on four thematic areas: Experiencing Complexity, Interacting with New Intelligences, Future Roles of Designers, Societal Impacts and Design Ethics. https://desform19.org
  • Mit Professional Education
    Co-Instructor
    Mit Professional Education Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
    Greater Boston Area
    Along with Professor Casalegno, I teach a yearly short-course on design innovation for industry professionals through MIT Professional Education.
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  • Innovation By Design, Llc
    Founding Partner And Director
    Innovation By Design, Llc Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
    Cambridge, Ma
    Innovation By Design (IXD) is a pluridisciplinary design and strategy studio. With offices in Boston, Milan and Seoul, we design and prototype disruptive experiences through fast-paced yet rigorous design research and project implementation. Composed of multidisciplinary designers, researchers, and creative technologists, we provide unique perspectives and implementable visions to some of the world’s largest and most visionary companies. IXD was founded in 2014, as a spin-off of MIT Mobile Experience Lab.
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  • Innovation By Design, Llc
    Project Lead / Design Strategist & Experience Architect
    Innovation By Design, Llc Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
    Cambridge, Ma
    As a lead design strategist, I led a team to envision futuristic concepts and scenarios to inform a corporate consumer electronics client to develop design strategy for their products in a imagined city of 2020. The project involved extensive primary research and secondary research (including expert interviews, ethnographic studies in multiple cities), concept generation, scenario building, and business strategy formation.
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  • Mit School Of Architecture And Planning, Art Culture Technology Department
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Mit School Of Architecture And Planning, Art Culture Technology Department Sep 2012 - Jan 2014
    Cambridge, Ma
    In collaboration with the MIT faculty, I was a teaching assistant for two MIT graduate courses in the Art, Culture, and Technology Department._Fabrics of Cultures, Intro to 3D Art (Fall 2012)_Advanced Seminar in Network Cultures and Participatory Media (Spring 2013)
  • Fr-Ee / Fernando Romero Enterprise
    Architectural Designer
    Fr-Ee / Fernando Romero Enterprise May 2011 - Jul 2011
    New York
    I was part of the design competition team to develop concepts and communicate ideas through scaled models and renderings
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  • Rex Architecture
    Architectural Designer
    Rex Architecture Jan 2011 - Feb 2011
    New York
    During this short internship phase, I was part of a high-rise housing design team. I assisted in developing modular construction details as well ad building a detailed interior model for one of the modular units.
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  • Unsangdong Architects
    Project Designer
    Unsangdong Architects Sep 2008 - Jan 2009
    Seoul, Korea
    At Unsangdong Architects in Seoul, I was part of a housing prototype design team. I was in charge of designing one of the three multi-family, high-rise prototype housing to propose alternatives for the Korean apartment housing industry. I led the design from its inception and initial concept diagrams to fully developed floor plans including the 1:100 block model and the 1:50 detailed section unit model. The project was presented to one of the largest construction companies in Korea, and the concept has been developed into an actual mid-rise housing project in Seoul.
  • Architecture & Light
    Project Architect, Leed Ap
    Architecture & Light Aug 2005 - Jun 2008
    San Francisco, Ca
    Hospitality interior architecture: for Nordstrom Group, Disney Cruise Line, total 20+ projectsWith emphasis on interior design trend research, schematic design through construction document preparation, coordinating with engineers and contractors, and construction management administration.
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