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Eric C. W. FUNG Product and Interaction Designer | HCI Researcher

Hi, nice to meet you! I started in psychology, moved into product design, then interaction design, and I am now stepping into design research. Scroll down to find small interactions along the way. Hope you enjoy it!

Prev.  |  K11 by AC, TOMY, PolyU Design

2× UX Design Award  |  Nominated 2025 & 2026

Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate

理念   Ethos

Designing convenience, joy, and hope for everyday life.

Eric C. W. FUNG

ONE PERSON A FAMILY THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM
  • 個人の暮らしPersonal Living
    • Education and Learning
    • Mental Health
    • Housing
  • 家族の絆Family Relationships
    • Shared Family Memories
  • 社会のつながりSocial Connections
    • Community
    • Public Space
    • Minorities

Selected Work

Five projects across digital platforms, exhibitions and physical products.

Click into any project to see the full story, from research to final design.

Bento grid of learning cardsWeb platform
01Web platform

DRAGGY

An AI search workspace for students. It turns long search results into a bento grid of small learning cards, which students drag into notebooks to build their own notes.

UX Design Award  |  Nominated 2026

Year
2026
Role
Concept, UX/UI, build and deployment
Outcome
Live with Google sign in and notes synced across devices
LIGHT BOX BLOCK CHAIN CLEANER OWNER THIRD PARTY
Story diorama systemScale 1:2000
02Exhibition

sustAIner

A story diorama and Wizard of Oz demonstrator for a social robotics research project. It shows how robots with local language models could help a cleaning worker and a property owner settle a dispute in Tai Po. Built from design concept and 3D modelling to wiring and control software, and shown to Government project evaluators in September 2026.

Year
2026
Lab
Research Laboratory for Advanced Social Robotics, PolyU (EARNEST design)
Role
Concept illustration, city model, story demo, electronics and lighting control
ENTRY LISTEN VOTE FRIDGE
Visitor circulationJockey Club Innovation Tower
03Original IP and exhibition

Fridge Friends

A new IP for K11 by AC that makes current affairs accessible to young audiences. I defined the visitor circulation and touchpoints for its first public launch and a two month exhibition, led the interactive installation and its physical and digital engineering, and delivered the official website from design system to deployment.

Year
2026
Client
K11 by AC Ltd., through PolyU's work integrated education programme
Role
Interaction Designer Co-op: exhibition experience, installation engineering, website
HOME DASH PROJECT BUDDY LEARN NOTIFY STUDENT TEACHER
Revised sitemapFrom card sort results
04AI learning platform

CapMind Ninja

An AI powered formative feedback platform that helps university students improve capstone projects and major assignments before they submit. Used across 11 Hong Kong higher education institutions and led by PolyU. I am the only designer on the team.

Year
2026, ongoing
Client
PolyU Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Role
User research, information architecture, visual identity, design system, project website
Contour studyBiophilic form
05Physical product

ZENSCAPE

A stress relief mat shaped by biophilic design, bringing natural forms into a calm daily moment for young people.

UX Design Award  |  Nominated 2025

Year
2025
Type
Physical product, wellbeing

Research

Human computer interaction, social robots and family life.

一

Preserving and retrieving shared memories between parents and adolescents

My Capstone research. How do parents and teenagers keep the moments they share, and how can design help them find those moments again later?

Method
Interviews and participatory design workshops with parent and adolescent pairs
Mentor
Prof. Junnan Yu, PolyU School of Design
Target
IDC 2027
二

From human cues to robot cues: turn taking in a Hong Kong counting game

Groups play Zong Gei, a local counting game, with and without a Reachy Mini robot, to see how people read each other and a robot before speaking.

My part
Testing methods, data collection plan, session operation and pilot software
Target
IEA 2027
三

Children and older adults meeting social robots

A co design workshop with children aged 6 to 10 on how they perceive social robots, and onboarding sessions for adults over 60 who set up an AI agent on their own phones.

Where
Hong Kong community centres, EARNEST design, 2026
Output
Co created robot concepts, AI usage habits study

Experience

仕事 Work

  • Jul 2026 - NowUndergraduate Research AssistantSep 2026 - NowResearch InternJul 2026 - Aug 2026Research Laboratory for Advanced Social Robotics (EARNEST design)The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Design (PolyU Design)
  • Aug 2026 - NowStudent Assistant, UX/UI DesignThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (PolyU EEE)
  • Sep 2026 - Nov 2026Interaction Designer Co-opK11 by AC Ltd.
  • Jun 2026 - Aug 2026UX/UI Design InternKigumi Group Ltd.
  • Jul 2024 - Aug 2024Product Design InternInnoSphere Ltd.
  • May 2024 - Jul 2024Product Designer Co-opTOMY (Hong Kong) Ltd.

受賞 Awards

資格 Certification

  • CertifiedSOLIDWORKS AssociateDassault Systèmes
  • CompletedAlias EssentialsCertificate of Completion

Shall we make everyday life a little better, together?

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