Tina made her first website in sixth grade (a Geocities gem replete with animated GIFs and background midis), and it all went downhill from there. Years later, she graduated from Tufts University and the Museum School of Fine Arts with a pair of degrees in Architectural Studies and Visual Arts, but found herself determined to continue her love affair with the web. Building upon a diverse collection of interests in everything from psychology to computer science to the fine arts, she comes to SVA with hopes of exploring new possibilities where people, culture, and hypertext products intersect.

In the real world, Tina works as a web and graphic designer for Cahoots Design in Boston, where she creates interactive and print solutions for clients ranging from folk musicians to hospitals. Her obsession is crafting websites with attention to visual appeal, accessibility, and functionality, while sneaking in as much CSS3 as she can get away with.

In whatever time remains, Tina loves to cook, fold origami, screen-print and in general make a mess on any flat horizontal surface. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and enjoys long conversations, people-watching, and exploring the city (any city).

Past Life

BFA, Studio Art, BA, Architectural Studies

Selected Projects

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  Cybernetics Final

  Students were required to critique a pre-existing interactive system of their own choosing by applying the models learned in class.

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  Fish Slaps A Baby

  Students designed a custom website for Fish Slaps A Baby and 15 unique blog templates inspired by the stories of 826NYC students.

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  Fundamentals Studios Final

  Students began their process by exploring project ideas within the themes of memory, behavior, politeness and sharing.

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  NYC BigApps

  Students were asked to concept a mobile application using at least one source of data from the NYC.gov Data Mine.

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  MoMA Smartphone App

  Students developed a set of prototype smartphone apps for the Museum of Modern Art.

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  Physical Computing Midterm

  Students were asked to design a new solution for an existing problem.

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  Prototyping User Experiences: Semester Review

  The students were asked to produce a video to reflect upon the use of prototypes in the design process.