UX Designer & Researcher

Nico Jan is a UX designer who spent eight years as a teacher learning how people think, read, and get stuck.

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Selected Projects

These projects span education, product design, and marketing. What connects them is the same question: how do people actually experience this, and where does it break down?

Useful Words

UX Design User Research Front-End Development

A bilingual reference tool that helps language learners find and apply vocabulary while writing. Built mobile-first, with layout decisions informed by observing how students actually hold their phones mid-task.

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WatchMeType

Product Design Interaction Design SwiftUI

A shipped macOS app that simulates human typing, built as both a working tool and a question about how schools respond to AI.

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Pocket Dystopia

Interaction Design Usability Testing Front-End Development

A randomized premise generator for beginner fiction writers, tested with real users and revised based on what felt confusing or flat.

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Aoni Campaigns

Audience Research Copywriting Campaign Strategy

A Hong Kong condom brand needed to enter the North American market. The client wanted direct messaging. The audience wanted humour. Our top campaign hit 30,000 interactions.

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Curriculum Design

Information Architecture Iterative Design User Research

Eight years of designing how people encounter complex information. Every handout and assessment followed the same process: observe where users struggle, restructure the material, test whether the change worked.

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