Product Design Lead
Inflection
Carina Ngai is currently the Product Design Lead at Inflection, building a new data platform that focuses on experience design and user empowerment. Prior to Inflection, Carina was the Design Futurist in Samsung’s UX Innovations Lab, where she led projects that define future consumer electronic experience in the next 5 years across multiple platforms. Carina had also led the experience design in Adobe’s consumer product line, Photoshop and Premiere Elements. Her work explores and studies people’s motivations, challenges, and contexts to map new design opportunities, and strategic roadmap for new and existing products/services. Carina regularly speaks at conferences and leads design workshops around the world. She also lectured and published on the practice of design research, interaction design, and inclusive design at the University of Applied Sciences in Basel Switzerland; Art Institute of California in US; Royal College of Art in London UK. Carina holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Media Design from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles.