Alvin Leung

Alvin Leung

Interaction Designer in Vancouver, He/Him

About

Alvin Leung is an interaction designer. He thrives in bringing wild concepts from 0 to 1 using his aesthetic sensibility and prototyping wizardry.

Projects

2023
Non-Touch Interaction in Kitchen Experiment

As a research-through-design project, I prototyped and tested air gesture and voice control interface using Swift and React JS. The project studies alternatives to touch screen paradigm under supervision of Dr. Carman Neustaedter.

2022
Touchpoint 2022: Interaction Design Conference

WebGL shader effect for landing hero section informed by visual identity.

2021
What if? — Fabrica

Interaction and art direction for a daring speculative art exhibition featuring 12 budding international artists.

Side Projects

2022

Photoshop style tone curve editor built with react and webgl — over 9.5k users.

2022

Refined and implemented novel carousel and scroll interaction using React JS and Framer Motion

Work Experience

2022 — 2022
Vancouver

Demonstrating software and craft in an introductory graphic design class.

2022 — 2022

Delivered high fidelity user testing prototypes using origami for a Google Venture backed startup.

2022 — 2022
Remote

Designed and developed novel interactions for studio website refresh. Delivered mobile interaction solutions to two startups.

2021 — 2021
Vancouver

Researched and uncovered trend insights that informed an alcohol beverage brand creation.
Iterated and presented 3 rounds of wordmark solution to client.
Developed mobile and desktop wireframes of an upcoming e-commerce site for a brand launch in the agricultural sector.

Volunteering

2021 — 2021
Creative Director at TEDxSFU
2018 — 2023
Music Minor at Simon Fraser University

Teams

Current
Daybreak Studio