Ming Tu

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About Ming Tu

Ming Tu is a User Experience Designer, Creative Developer, and Interdisciplinary Artist based in New York. Being an interdisciplinary designer, thinker, doer, collaborator, and problem solver with a cross-disciplinary background, he works at the intersection of art, design, and technology. In his previous position at the Harvard Art Museums, Tu has conceptualized, designed, prototyped, developed, and built various hybrid experiences/products/applications that engaged users and created inventive experiences across multiple platforms. He has collaborated with 64 professionals and institutions ranging from visual scientists from NASA, ad/design agencies, educators, film directors, musicians, videographers, photographers, to curators, conservators, artists, archaeologists, astrophysics, and herbalists to create 52 digital products for the Museums in 2 years. Prior to joining Harvard, Tu worked in the Digital Learning Department at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. He is also a practicing dentist with a Dentist Professional License in Taiwan, and he has great passion in improving dentist-patient communication and patient experience by utilizing design and technology. Tu's works have been shown in the Harvard Art Museums, The Museum and the Web, Harvard University Admissions website, Harvard IT Summit, Art Technology Psyche Conference, SIGHTLines: obJECT, the Illuminating Futures Exhibition in the Ashland Public Library, Parsons Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Beijing Design Week, and featured in Harvard Crimson, Harvard Gazette, Index Magazine, New School Games, Timeout Magazine, World Architecture News, and Parsons Press. Specialties: • User Experience Design • User Interface Design • Interaction Design • Interactive Prototyping • Information Architecture • Digital Product Design • Digital Strategy Development • Front-end Development • Data Visualization • Creative Technology • Interactive Installation • LEGO Building