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Hey ヾ(＾∇＾) I am Grace Chen 陈思思
I'm a designer who loves building and growing communities. I grew up in ☀︎ San Diego, CA and studied Computer Science and Fine Arts at Brown University.
I'm currently designing safety features at Instagram. Before that I worked on creator tools at Roblox, helped grow various startups, and led design teams at Brown: Hack@Brown, Brown Daily Herald, BWxD.
Currently obsessed with typography, clementines, the pickle chips from trader joes, and this animation.
I come from a background of fine art but fell in love with UI/UX after discovering it in high school. It was goal-driven and functional in a way that art was not.
Since starting design I've:
Helped put on a conference centered around ethical and interdisciplinary design in hopes to make a Better World by Design.
Discovered my love for 3D modeling through designing for Hack@Brown. I went on to lead the design team and taught Blender to our newbies :)
Interned as a Product Designer at Roblox, helping game developers connect with each other and building features on the homepage that allow their games to be discovered easier! Learned so much in the six months I worked there and could not imagine my job as anything other than a designer.
This is me at Config in 2023!
My roblox avatar...
Outside of design, I am:
A dancer with a soft spot for contemporary and ballet. Back in the day, I was a on the US national team forAesthetic Group Gymnastics and got to travel to some of my favorite cities (Singapore and Rio de Janeiro)!
A former 3D-printing fanatic. If you are also an engineering nerd, you can read my paper here on the effect of printing patterns on the strength of 3D printed soft plastics.
A collector of clothes, trinkets, and hobbies.
A look at my lab table when I was doing research at UCSD.
