Christy Lee

UI/UX Designer

ICS Student Council at UC Irvine | Irvine, CA

October 2025 - Present

Drove the ongoing development of AntAlmanac, a course exploration tool used by more than 16,000 UCI students, with a focus on clarifying and simplifying the overall user experience. Partnered with developers to redesign interface layouts and user flows to keep the platform intuitive, accessible, and aligned with student scheduling needs. Conducted informal usability reviews and gathered student feedback to shape design recommendations, supporting more user-centered feature enhancements and future iterations.

Operations Coordinator Student Assistant

The Paul Merage School of Business | Irvine, CA

February 2024 - Present

Coordinated logistics for guest lectures and events by organizing parking permits, reserving conference rooms, and overseeing deliveries and pickups, ensuring smooth execution for 20+ sessions each quarter. Supported faculty research by transforming complex Excel datasets into clear, professional graphs and charts used in academic presentations and publications, enabling faster insight generation. Standardized academic materials by converting PowerPoint decks to common templates, editing course documents, and refining papers for consistency and clarity. Managed administrative workflows—including filing, scanning, and document organization—to maintain efficient daily office operations.

Mind Cycle / HowRU Today (Sleep Lab App)

January 2026 - Present

In partnership with Pediatric Sleep Lab of UCI School of Medicine. Developing a Unity-based mobile app for iOS and Android featuring intuitive, 3-minute cognitive mini-games designed to be accessible to non-gamers while maintaining engagement for younger users. Managing cross-platform development across separate iOS and Android GitHub branches, using isolated feature branches and controlled merges to preserve stability and maintain feature parity. Supported weekly in-person team meetings and sprint planning by creating agendas, storyboarding/prototyping new mini-game concepts, and iterating toward 20+ validated versions aligned with lab task rules and future adult/child testing.

Creating a Portfolio

September 2025 - October 2025

Beginning the process by creating sketches to map out the structure, layout, and flow of the website, Christy carefully considered how users would navigate and interact with the content. These initial ideas were then refined in Figma, where visual elements, typography, and color schemes were explored and finalized to establish a cohesive and appealing design. The PDF shown is one of the drafts created during the Figma process. After finalizing the majority of the design decisions, the website was coded in HTML and CSS, with careful attention to following the W3C’s standards to ensure accessibility, making the site usable and navigable for all users, including those relying on assistive technologies.

Humanities Core: Digital Archive and Research

September 2023 - June 2024

Created as part of UCI’s Humanities Core “Worldbuilding” theme, this project features a digital archive that presents Christy’s interpretations of how people imagine, construct, and reshape their worlds through art, history, and media. The archive also traces the analytical framework and creative reasoning that guided her approach to the accompanying research paper. Her end-of-the-year paper examines the immersive storytelling of Disneyland’s Indiana Jones Adventure, exploring how narrative, design, and sensory experience converge to shape audience perception. Through the lens of worldbuilding, the project reflects on how constructed environments can transcend physical space to evoke emotion, curiosity, and transformation.