# Sabrina Cheng > Junior Designer & Consultant @ UCSD Design Lab | Prev @ World Design Organization Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sabrinacheng Hi! My name is Sabrina and I'm currently a senior at UC San Diego: pursing a B.A. ICAM (Interdisciplinary Computing and Art) degree and B.S. Cognitive Science with a Specialization in Design Interaction. I’m a multidisciplinary designer focused on the intersection of physical and digital user experiences. I love exploring how digital interfaces and physical spaces can meaningfully inform one another to shape engaging, intuitive experiences. ## Work Experience ### HCI Curriculum Designer @ Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Jan 2025 – Present ### Product Designer @ Billion Labs Jan 2025 – Present ### UI UX Design Intern @ Billion Labs Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 Building digital medical devices that assist in injury monitoring and recovery. ### Junior Designer & Design Consultant @ UC San Diego Design Lab Jan 2023 – Present UCSD’s Design Lab, founded by Don Norman, works on identifying and solving major societal issues across various design fields, training undergraduate and graduate students to support staff in delivering knowledge, programs, and services in the field of Human Centered- Design. - Serve as a consultant to and other parties looking to work with UCSD on behalf of the Design Lab - Support a team and staff through a projects and collaborative efforts, both education based and resource initiatives ### UI/UX Designer @ ACM at UC San Diego Jan 2024 – Present ### Hackathon Operations Director @ ACM at UC San Diego Jan 2023 – Present The Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ### Young Designers Circle Contributor (USA Representative) @ World Design Organization Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 The World Design Organization (WDO)™, is an international non-governmental organization that promotes the profession of industrial design and its ability to generate better products, systems, services, and experiences; better business and industry; and ultimately a better environment and society. Includes over 170 member organizations from more than 40 nations, engaging them in collaborative efforts and providing them with the opportunity to be heard internationally. The Young Designers Circle is a volunteer- based program which is aligned with WDO’s mission to design for a better world, and its objectives to promote the use of design to help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).This initiative aims to strengthen the role of design leadership today, by planting seeds that will lead to a large impact tomorrow. ### Marketing & Communications Department: Web Development Intern @ World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024 Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 - Oversee English/Spanish 60+ webpages, advertising 330+ events across the San Diego-Tijuana Region (200+ host orgs)(150k+ attendees) - Primary Website Content Manager: SEO Optimization, Content Review Compliance, Content Scheduling, Troubleshooting Issues - UX Monitoring + designing: improving WDC Website UI/ Generate promotional content material via Adobe Suite - Data Management: Database Maintenance, Data Analysis, Integration and Automation of data flows to optimize efficiency ### Operations Department: Ticketing Assistant Manager @ Stern Grove Festival Association Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area - oversee and manage reservations for 160k+ people attending weekly summer concerts - analyze guest check-in data at each entrance, help create new methods/ plans to better optimize inflow [increase intake rate by 30%] - address + take email/ phone request for 2K Senior/ ADA/ Wheelchair/ VIP patrons - manage the inflow of and process guest (day of) at main entrance gates [3 stations] (40k) - Help oversee 26+ member reservation team (break schedules/ dispersing + handling equipment/ set up + redeployment + break down) ### Innovation Sprint (i4x) intern @ The Basement UC San Diego Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Innovation Sprints (i4x) connects students and industry to work together to tackle various issues. Specifically, I was paired with Zelig, a subbranch of MadaLuxe a luxary fashion distributer, in order to conduct User Research and Testing for their AR/ AI Virtual try-on application. ### Vice President (Head of Operations) for Team 4159 @ FIRST Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Overseeing/ leading coordination over all operations and logistics for 60+ team, 200+ external parties (trips, events, etc.) - Handled competition/ event planning (transportation/ food/ lodging) and hosting/ scheduling meetings - Kept all parties informed and updated (served as primary contact) - In charge of managing all paperwork and keeping data organized (Google Spreadsheets/ Drive) ### Head of Finance @ Coit Tower Car Converters Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Coit Tower Car Converters is a student lead group who aims to convert a combustion engine vehicle into electric. Role: - Reach out to potential funders and grants - Assist with mechanical/ design aspects of the conversion (protyping and assembly) ## Education ### B.S. Cognitive Science with a Specialization in Design Interaction UC San Diego ### Design Discovery Summer Program in Urban Planning, Architecture, Landscape Harvard University Graduate School of Design ### Study Abroad: Computer Science & Art National University of Singapore ### B.A. Interdisciplinary Computing and Art UC San Diego ### Lowell High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sabrina-e-cheng --- Source: https://flows.cv/sabrinacheng JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sabrinacheng/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13