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Danny Huang

Yiming Huang (Danny) — Design Engineer

Index of works — 23

Design engineer building for hands & bodies — across extended reality, haptics, hardware, software and the things we wear.

Selected work ↓

Manifesto

On identity & embodiment

We fall asleep and wake up assuming we are the same person, but nothing guarantees unbroken selfhood except our own belief in it. Yet identity is prone to disruption: a split-second lapse in awareness, a traumatic event that disrupts memory, a flow state where the self dissolves into action. Selfhood is not the constant we assume it is, but somehow, our identity persists through these fractures. This is the genesis of my interest in Extended Reality.

Continue reading — ¶ 02–03 on About

03 — ThesisScroll to press

Reality, Reimagined.

From “About” — Yiming “Danny” Huang
04 — Selected work06 of 23 projects

Selected work — 06 of 23

Six projects from six chapters — each panel opens its case study.

No. 02/06Ch. 02 Heal2025Honorable Mention, Afference Artificial Touch — Immerse the Bay 2025
A teammate in a Meta Quest headset kneels at a table in a large study hall, his hand in the sensor glove, reaching for a water bottle.

ReSense

A haptic glove that turns heat and pressure into warnings for people who cannot feel pain.

Still · 4:3Open case study

No. 03/06Ch. 03 Build2025Gesture-Controlled 3D-Printed Robotic Arm

Robotic Arm

A 3D-printed robotic arm that mirrors your hand in real time — move, grab, release, naturally.

Loop · 1.07:1Open case study

No. 04/06Ch. 04 Ship2025–26

Knovus

The AI study platform I co-founded: course files in, a roadmap of bite-sized lessons out — web and iOS.

Loop · 16:9Open case study

05 — Chapters06 chapters · 23 projects

Six chapters.One thread — hands & bodies.

Grouped by what the work does — not the department it came from.

Scroll to open · touch to heat

01Sense

04

Extended reality & perception

Headsets and glasses that change what you see — mixed-reality tools, games and a heads-up display.

02Heal

03

Rehabilitation & haptics

A haptic glove, a rehab game and a hand-therapy cube — two of them shaped with occupational therapists at LA General.

03Build

04

Machines & circuits

Robotics, mechanisms and electronics, prototyped, printed and wired by hand.

04Ship

04

Software & AI products

Apps and AI products, from a Figma prototype to working software.

05Wear

04

Fashion & wearables

A streetwear label I co-founded, my first fashion start-up, and garments designed around the people who wear them.

06Make

04

Products & packaging

Everyday objects shaped through a designer’s lens: form, colour and use.

06 — Capabilities

Founder & Designer & Engineer

Designer × Engineer

Design, engineering and code — one practice.

A × B × C — Crossover

15 of 23 projects

Counted per project — team projects included

Projects cross two or more of A · B · C

Fig. 01 — Overlapn = 23

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All three: MusicArc
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Design
19
B
Engineering
10
C
Code
10
Two or more
15
All three
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MusicArc
23 projects — reading order
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02
03
04
05
06
A

Design

19/23

Also — Motion & animation ×01 (Knovus)

B

Engineering

10/23
C

Code

10/23
Disciplines crossed (A · B · C)
  • CAD — 6 projects
  • Hand sketching — 5 projects
  • Unity — 5 projects
  • 3D printing — 4 projects
  • Meta Quest — 4 projects
  • Rendering — 4 projects
  • Blender — 3 projects
  • C# — 3 projects
  • FEA — 2 projects
  • Foam models — 2 projects
  • Illustrator — 2 projects
  • Next.js — 2 projects
  • Python — 2 projects
  • Swift — 2 projects
  • SwiftUI — 2 projects
  • Technical drawing — 2 projects
  • 3D garment simulation — 1 project
  • AR body scanning — 1 project
  • Arduino — 1 project
  • AVAudioEngine — 1 project
  • AVFoundation — 1 project
  • Bluetooth LE — 1 project
  • C++ — 1 project
  • Cardboard models — 1 project
  • Clerk — 1 project
  • Combine — 1 project
  • CoreMotion — 1 project
  • Embroidery — 1 project
  • ESP32 — 1 project
  • FastAPI — 1 project
  • Figma — 1 project
  • Firebase — 1 project
  • Framer Motion — 1 project
  • Fusion 360 — 1 project
  • Gemini — 1 project
  • GSAP — 1 project
  • iOS — 1 project
  • KaTeX — 1 project
  • Lottie — 1 project
  • Mapbox — 1 project
  • MediaPipe — 1 project
  • Mermaid — 1 project
  • Meta MRUK — 1 project
  • NavMeshAgent — 1 project
  • NumPy — 1 project
  • OpenCV — 1 project
  • Passthrough Camera API — 1 project
  • Polycam — 1 project
  • pySerial — 1 project
  • React — 1 project
  • Rive — 1 project
  • Scale models — 1 project
  • Screen printing — 1 project
  • Soldering — 1 project
  • SolidWorks — 1 project
  • STYLY — 1 project
  • Supabase — 1 project
  • SwiftData — 1 project
  • Tailwind CSS — 1 project
  • TypeScript — 1 project
  • Unity Sentis — 1 project
  • Vercel — 1 project
  • Vision — 1 project
  • WebSockets — 1 project
  • XcodeGen — 1 project
  • XR Device Simulator — 1 project

×06 = used in 6 projects