Hyemi Song is a designer, an artist, and a researcher. She is interested in data as a language for human communication and relevant practices associated with Information/Data Visualization, Data Sonification, Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Analytics, Data-Driven Self-Expression, and Walking as an artistic language. In the professional field, based on her specialties (Data Visualization and UX/UI Design), she has extensively worked with international companies and institutions, including Microsoft, Naver, Samsung, Korea Telecom, RISD, MIT and more. Her works have been featured in international awards, publications, and exhibitions such as Information is Beautiful Awards, IEEE Arts Program, Fast Company, Monthly Design Magazine, iF Design Awards, The Guardian, Raw Data: Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, Seoul Design Olympiad, among others.
Hyemi Song
Senior UX Designer in Data Visualization (Microsoft)
Hyemi Song
Senior UX Designer in Data Visualization - Microsoft
Hyemi Song is a designer, an artist, and a researcher. She is interested in data as a language for human communication and relevant practices associated with Information/Data Visualization, Data Sonification, Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Analytics, Data-Driven Self-Expression, and Walking as an artistic language. In the professional field, based on her specialties (Data Visualization and UX/UI Design), she has extensively worked with international companies and institutions, including Microsoft, Naver, Samsung, Korea Telecom, RISD, MIT and more. Her works have been featured in international awards, publications, and exhibitions such as Information is Beautiful Awards, IEEE Arts Program, Fast Company, Monthly Design Magazine, iF Design Awards, The Guardian, Raw Data: Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, Seoul Design Olympiad, among others.
Lecture
Data and Human Communication
Song’s lecture focused on how she uses data to enhance human communication. The projects she presented used data from various sources and interpreted the data through various visual means. Her sources of data vary from her own personal diary entries to a multitude of Twitter posts, and data based on walking in New York Central Park. Many of these projects are spurred on by questions, followed by the collection and categorization of data, and finally encapsulating her conclusions through visualization. Her visualization methods are experimental, for example the 3D interactive environments created for her collection of works and sound and light immersion in her project Solar System, but emphasizes user experience and the ability to tell the story through the medium.
Workshop
Measuring the Temperature of My Mind
The workshop follows a simplified version of Song’s process of creating her project, The Temperature of My Mind, but using diary entries of students or a sample of Anne Frank’s diary. Song guided students through the steps of data preparation, data analysis and processing, sketching, visualization, and presentation.
