I build the interactive scaffolding that lets designers and generative AI hand intent back and forth — without losing what made it the designer's in the first place.
— capturing a designer's intent, decomposing the design into operable parts, structuring the relations between them, and generating outputs that hand the reasoning back to the designer to steer the next move.
Two routes — the explicit (direct manipulation, semantic tags) and the implicit (accumulated behaviors, gaze, dwell). Both feed a shared internal representation.
Breaking a design into parts a designer can actually grab — across text, 2D image, 3D shape, and multimodal channels. Semantic and structural decomposition working in tandem.
A relational graph of design elements that evolves turn by turn — chair → frame → wood → sustainable → bamboo — building a map that the designer can re-enter later.
Closing the loop. Outputs that expose property edges ("is-style-of", "has-property") so designers can reach into the model's reasoning and steer the next iteration.
Exhibited at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023 with the WAS (Waste As Source) Project — re-framing waste material as the starting point of design rather than its endpoint.
We coexist through solidarity with time. Unknowingly, we counterattack the paradoxical boundaries drawn. I hope we can erase the boundaries of time and space, pose questions taken for granted, and attempt a counterattack.
최지인, 장유경, 현경훈 · Korean Institute of Spatial Design (한국공간디자인학회), 2026.04.07.
Residence — re-thinking shared domestic space through the lens of contemporary collective living.
Alley regeneration proposal for Wanwol-dong, Busan — preserving the texture of a hillside neighborhood while inviting new life.
本 (n.) root, basis · bon (adv.) good, pleasure, firm — a hanok-style apartment that grounds tradition in everyday living.
A data visualization that grows fungus from the current ambient temperature — making weather feel alive in your room.
Captures and averages immediate facial expressions to surface the dominant mood of a face over time.
Kinetic lamp that turns its on-off circuit into a visible, tactile mechanism — wiring becomes part of the form.
Acrylic mockup of Jean Prouvé's Antony Chair — translating a mid-century icon into transparent material to reveal its structural logic.
I'm a Ph.D. & M.S. integrated student at Hanyang University, working with Kyung Hoon Hyun in the Design AI Lab.
My research builds interactive methods that turn the messy, scattered intuitions of designers into navigable cognitive spaces — helping people steer generative AI without losing their own creative voice.
