Reimagine the Future with Design

Vergil Shi
Experience Designer @ Adobe
Interaction Design BFA @ California College of the Arts

Photoshop Experience Design

Designing the features and experience of Adobe Photoshop, collaborating with world-class design experts, to help global creative shapers reimagine the future.

Features: Improved interoperability with Illustrator / Unified text engine / Live shapes / Automatically activate fonts / Type settings / etc.

Skills: Interaction design / User experience / Visual design / Wireframes / Storyboarding / Prototyping / Web design / User testing / HTML&CSS / OKRs / Agile methodology

Tools: Adobe XD / Figma / Sketch / Framer / Miro / Lucid Chart

Graphic / Visual Design

A series of graphic and visual designs utilizing the design knowledge learned and the accumulated visual experience.

Skills: Typography / Branding / Visual iteration

Tools: Photoshop / Illustrator

Favorite graphic designers: Yusaku Kamekura, Asao Tokolo, Yui Takada

Traditional / Digital Paintings

Exploration and study of artistic things in spare time, such as traditional and digital paintings.

Skills: Digital drawing / Pencil sketching / Acrylic painting / Oil painting / Color theory / Projection and perspective principles / Art history

Tools: Adobe Fresco / Procreate / Pencil and paper / Brushes and Paints

Favorite artists: Katherine Bradford / Yoshitaka Amano / Yasunari Ikenaga / Ayami Kojima

Digital Photography

Daily photographs to express the aesthetic perception of fragments in everyday life.

Skills: Digital imaging / Lenses

Tools: iPhone X / Fujifilm X Series / Lightroom / VSCO

Favorite photographers: Petra Collins / Kotori Kawashima / Toshiaki Kitaoka / Ittetsu Matsuoka

College Project Archives

A collection of design projects at California College of the Arts that reveals the journey of learning and practicing interaction design.

Password required to view the design process and details.

Courses completed: Visual communication / User interface design / Interactive prototyping / Responsive web design / Front-end development

Reading List

A personal reading list.

  • Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't — Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results — Christina Wodtke

  • Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design — Barry Katz

  • Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment — Robert Wright

  • Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy — Sadhguru

Listening List

What have been listening to recently.