About — Qinqin (Stella) Yang

Qinqin (Stella) Yang

Qinqin (Stella) Yang is a creative strategist and builder working across AI-native creative development, product innovation, and venture building. She turns emerging technologies and cultural shifts into experiences, systems, and new business propositions that can be tested and developed in the real world. Her work moves from opportunity framing and creative direction through rapid prototyping, product and experience design.

杨沁沁(Stella Yang)是一位致力于 AI 原生创意开发的策略师和实践者,工作涵盖产品创新与新业务开发。她关注如何从新兴技术和文化变化中发现机会,并将其转化为可以在真实场景中测试、迭代和持续发展的体验、系统与新业务。她既参与前期的机会判断和创意策略,也参与快速原型、产品与体验设计。

Through her practice Actual Fiction, she partners with creative leaders and multidisciplinary teams to develop AI-native systems, workflows, and creative infrastructure. The practice spans creative strategy and direction, product innovation and experience design, creative R&D and rapid prototyping, venture development and business-model exploration. Across these areas, she combines strategic framing with hands-on development to help teams move from an emerging opportunity to a working proposition and a credible path toward implementation.

她以 Actual Fiction 为实践平台,与创意负责人及跨专业团队共同开发 AI 原生系统、工作流程和创意基础设施,涵盖创意策略与方向、产品创新与体验设计、创意研发与快速原型,以及新业务开发与商业探索。她深度参与从早期探索到具体方案形成的整个过程,包括机会定位、确定创意方向、制作快速原型,以及塑造产品体验和业务模式。

Earlier in her career, she worked in senior creative planning at OUTPUT — leading creative work for clients including Tencent, The Palace Museum, and Burberry. As an independent creative based in Tokyo and beyond, she has contributed to projects for clients including Transsion, Uniqlo, LVMH, and Boston Scientific. She also served as Senior Experience Designer with the mobile innovation team at J.P. Morgan Chase, joined the Creative Science Track at NEW INC under the New Museum, and led Strategic Partnerships for the Global Design Futures Network. Besides, she holds several patents.

她曾在 OUTPUT 担任资深创意策划,主导服务过包括 腾讯、故宫博物院、Burberry 在内的客户项目。后来作为独立创意人,活跃在东京等地区,参与了 Transsion、Uniqlo、LVMH、Boston Scientific 等品牌的项目。她还曾担任 J.P. Morgan Chase 移动创新团队的资深体验设计师,加入 NEW INC(隶属新美术馆)的 Creative Science Track 驻地项目,并在 Global Design Futures Network 负责战略合作。此外,她持有多项发明专利。

Based in Los Angeles. Previously Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, San Francisco, and Paris.

现常驻洛杉矶。曾在东京、上海、纽约、旧金山与巴黎工作生活。

Practice
Creative strategy & direction创意战略与方向
Product innovation & experience design产品创新与体验设计
AI-native systems & workflow designAI-native 系统与工作流设计
Creative R&D & rapid prototyping创意研发与快速原型
Venture development & business model exploration业务开发与孵化、商业模式探索
Research, writing & speaking研究、写作与演讲
Recognition & Features
Commissioned by SPACE10 (IKEA) — Everyday Experiments受 SPACE10 (IKEA) 委托参与 Everyday Experiments 项目
Featured Artist, The Animal Farm Simulator curated by Li Zheng & Chen Jianghong (Hyundai Blue Prize); Artist Talk & Panel speaker at opening参展艺术家,李峥与陈江虹策展项目 《动物农场模拟器》(Hyundai Blue Prize);开幕式 Artist Talk 与 Panel 发言
Initiated GDFN's presentation at Expo 2025 Osaka牵头 GDFN 在 2025 年大阪世博会的展示项目
Led GDFN × Dubai Future Foundation institutional exchange主导 GDFN × Dubai Future Foundation 机构间交流项目
Invited Participant, Dubai Future Forum (Dubai Future Foundation)受邀参与 Dubai Future Forum(Dubai Future Foundation 主办)
Session Organizer & Host, Tangible Fiction: Science Fiction in Art, Design, and Public Experiences, Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention)发起并主持沙龙《有形的虚构:科幻在艺术、设计和公共体验中的表达》(Tangible Fiction),Worldcon(世界科幻大会)
Awards & Honors including Fast Company Innovation by Design · Core77 · Lumen Prize · WIRED Japan Creative Hack · Falling Walls Science Summit获奖与荣誉:曾获 Fast Company Innovation by Design、Core77、Lumen Prize、WIRED Japan Creative Hack、Falling Walls Science Summit 等奖项
Education
UCLA — BS in Electrical Engineering · Art History minorUCLA(加州大学洛杉矶分校)— 电气工程学士 · 艺术史辅修
Parsons School of Design — MFA in Design & TechnologyParsons School of Design(纽约帕森斯设计学院)— 设计与科技专业硕士(MFA)
Harvard GSD — Design Discovery ProgramHarvard GSD(哈佛大学设计研究生院)— Design Discovery Program
Certifications
The Futures School (TFSX) — Certified Foresight PractitionerThe Futures School (TFSX) — 认证未来学实践者(Certified Foresight Practitioner)
Institute for the Future (IFTF) — Futures Thinking SpecializationInstitute for the Future (IFTF) — 未来思维专业认证(Futures Thinking Specialization)
The Futures School (TFSX) — Scenario Methodologies: Scenarios, World-building, and Guiding NarrativesThe Futures School (TFSX) — 情景方法论:情景构建、世界观搭建与引导性叙事