Hayoun Won – www.helenawon.com
Harvard GSD, ADPD(Art, Design and the Public domains) / MdesS2

Experience
Helena Hayoun Won is currently a designer at MDesS ADPD at Harvard GSD. In addition, she has worked as a designer in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab. She completed her Doctorate in industrial design from Seoul National University and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual communication and industrial design from Seoul National University. Over the past years, Helena has developed her career as a professional designer, compiling both solid academic and professional experience. Her works have focused on visual arts and visual design, industrial design in the realms of technology, industrial design, and art, and her projects are extensive and include subject matter related to fine arts, visual communication, industrial design, and user experience design. As a doctoral candidate in Seoul, she participated in visualizing and designing the future design project at the Future Concept lab and Samsung Design in Milan, Italy. Last year she contributed to a design project in MIT's mobile experience lab that focused on creative visualization related to the digital user experience and interaction between ecology and smart system design. Helena actively participated as a lead designer on several commercial projects with multi-national corporate clients. She observes user behaviors and desire and reinterprets them through the design of new hybrid objects with strong informative visualization and innovative creativity. She exhibited her work at the Milan Design Fair, Tokyo Design Festa, Korea Design Exhibition, and various other exhibitions around the world. (http://www.linkedin.com/in/helenahayounwon)

Why
Currently, she is researching about "smart aggregation interface between digital device and smart inner space" which is topic for her final thesis project at Harvard GSD. Thus, the class topic aligns well with her interest as well as her research. Plus, she is an enthusiastic and self motivated person with great teamwork skills and her ability to work efficiently under pressure will be a great asset in this class project.

Art
Architecture
Craft/Fabrication
Design
DIY Electronics
Electrical Eng.
Mech. Eng.
Programming/CS

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