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About the Designer

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would've said faster horses." - Don Norman

Ysanne is an inquisitive and adaptable individual with a big heart for others. Her design process is characterised by tactful and extensive user study, because she believes that desirable and effective systems support natural human behaviour. She integrates knowledge from various domains and embodied knowledge from Eastern therapeutic traditions to strategise and plan for holistic human-centred social systems.

She is a competent mediator of stakeholders who is able to lead Design teams to develop pivotal user insights that inspire innovative solutions. She is a change-maker with a keen eye for User Interaction and Experience (UIUX) design. She streamlines complex systems into simplified models and logic to facilitate application and implementation. As a human advocate, she strongly believes that joy is the core driver of sustainable behaviour change and strives to be a vessel for nurturing support.

There's a high chance you might find her sitting in a cafe with her laptop on the side. While it may appear that she is evaluating the world as it goes by, she probably wouldn't mind sharing a good time over conversations about Food, Health or Design.

Notable Works

In 2020, she designed an App in partnership with National University of Singapore (NUS) Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) that would encourage students to make healthier food choices for themselves. The concept was built on behavioural science, to inform nudge techniques that would increase self-efficacy. This self directed project - NutriSmart - was her first foray into Design for Public Health.

She has also designed a rehabilitation device for stroke patients (Oni, 2019), that increased their motivation and engagement in performing therapy exercises. Her ability to develop pivotal user insights has benefitted various communities and stakeholders.

Her Passion Projects

Work aside, Ysanne finds herself exploring various ways to serve and bring joy to people. She has volunteered on a farm, contributed crafts for charity, and explored healthy baking to provide for different needs. She started a little home-based bakery that specialises in wholesome, gluten-free zucchini cakes, created from her own recipe from 2019. She is also a certified Holistic Health Coach. She graduated from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, equipped with knowledge, skills, and the love to guide and empower individuals to live nourishing, happier lives.

Conferences

2023 Jul TE2023 Conference Presentation

Certifications

2022 Dec JLPT N2
2021 Dec 200H Yoga Teacher Training, by Yoga+ Singapore
2021 Jul Storytelling for Leaders by All Lined Up, Coaching Tigers
2021 Mar Facilitating Powerful Conversations L1, by The Thought Collective Common Ground
2021 Mar Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute of Integrative Nutrition

Awards

2022 Aug MEXT Scholarship (University Recommendation), Keio SDM
2020 Jun   Dean's List, Division of Industrial Design, NUS
2019 Nov   The James Dyson Award National Runner Up (Project: Electro)
2019 Mar SustHack Winner, Sustainability Innocenter, Uppsala, Sweden
2016 Aug    NUS Global Merit Scholarship, 2016 - 2020
2016 Jan IBDP Excellence Award, Year 6, SOTA
2015 Jan Excellence Award, Year 5, SOTA
2014 Jan Ngee Ann Kongsi Scholarship (2014 - 2015)
2010 Jan Ngee Ann Kongsi Scholarship (2010 - 2012)

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Exhibitions

2015 Dec 3-27 Visual Arts (VA) Graduation Exhibition
2014-2015 Oct Allen & Overy LLP Artworks Showcase
2014 Feb 13 Chinese New Year (CNY) Moments Photography
2013-2014 Oct Ashurst LLP Artworks Showcase
2013 May Encapsulations VA Year 3&4 Exhibition
2012-2013 Apr Allen & Overy LLP Artworks Showcase

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