About

Yvette Shen is a designer, researcher, and educator, currently Associate Professor and Aea Coordinator of Visual Communication Design at The Ohio State University. She also serves on the AIGA Design Educators Community board, contributing to a strong network of academic and professional peers.

Born in Shanghai and shaped by design, her work continues evolve at the intersections of research, teaching, and creative practice.

With an educational background spanning fashion design, computer science, and visual communication design, Yvette began her career as an interactive designer, collaborating across industries—from pharma to art, cars to culture. Today, she focuses on information design, data visualization, and UX/UI, using design as both lens and tool to translate complexity into clarity and spark deeper understanding.

Because understanding empowers. Because creativity is about making unexpected connections. Because good design brings clarity with purpose. Every decision, big or small, deserves a story shaped by honesty, care, and thoughtful perspectives.

Design is not just how things look. It is how they work, how they support, how they inform, and how they engage.

Communication is at the core, using visualization to reveal hidden insights. Creativity, strategy, design, and technology come together to make complexity visible and ideas accessible.