Fueled by User-Centered Studies and Spatial Thinking

SPATIAL INTERFACE DESIGNER

Blending User-Centered Design, Data Visualization & Cartography

Yanbing Chen

YANBING CHEN

Madison, WI

Who's Yanbing?
A Spatial UI/UX Designer & Cartographer. 🗺️
What do you bring to the table?
Clarity in complex data. I bridge the gap between technical spatial analysis and intuitive, user-centered design.
Love that. Experience?
Research at UW-Madison CartLab, GIS Specialist at McGill, and industrial design projects for complex systems.
Team player vibes?
Always! I work seamlessly with engineering and product teams to ship scalable designs.
Any areas you're excited about?
User-Centered Design, Spatial Visualization, and making location intelligence accessible to everyone!
Selected Work
From static maps to interactive systems, these projects show how I combine spatial analysis and design craft.

Van Gogh Style Basemap

A custom basemap style based on Van Gogh's style, created using Mapbox.

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Role
UI Designer
Focus
Web & Map Design
Van Gogh Style Basemap

International Students in the U.S.

A Storymap exploring the experiences of current international students in the U.S. due to policy changes.

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Role
Designer and Developer
Focus
Storytelling and Interaction Design
Storymap about International Students

Paleoecological Taxonomy Visualization

A visualization tool for 60000+ paleoecological taxonomy.

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Role
Researcher
Focus
Visual Design and Analytics
Paleoecological Taxonomy Visualization