Hi! I'm Gileen,
design thinker.
Using design and technology to question dominant narratives, better understand the human experience, and build towards more equitable futures.
EDUCATION
California State University, Long Beach
M.A. Human Experience Design Interactions
Class of 2026
Stanford University
B.S. Product Design
Class of 2022
EXPERIENCE
Swisslog Healthcare // Design Specialist
Advance Local // Multimedia Designer
Aegis Ventures // Design Intern
The Center for Urban Pedagogy // Intern
Stanford GSB Library // Design Student Assistant
SKILLS
UI / UX / Graphic / Motion Design
Prototyping ( Figma / CAD )
Research & Storytelling
Digital / Traditional Art
Coding ( HTML / CSS / p5.js )
SELECT WORKS
23 MAGAZINE
This series experiments with alternate strategies of spreading narratives, reimagining select chapters from Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism through the bold and attention-grabbing visual language of gossip magazine covers.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE IN (CORPORATE) MEMPHIS ANYMORE
Who are these flat uncanny figures that have taken over the tech world? Do we know truly them, and why have we come to accept them as symbols of delight, trustworthiness, and whimsy? I Don't Think We're in (Corporate) Memphis Anymore is a reimagination of the Corporate Memphis style as disturbingly realistic humans — pushing us to question what (and who) represents humanity in our digital spaces.
BLNK APP
BLNK is a satirical app design project that critiques the obsession with apps as fix-all solutions. By imagining a mobile app that tells users when to blink — despite blinking being a semi-autonomic bodily function — it brings into question: do we really need an app for everything?
HONEST PAPAYA
Honest Papaya is a packaging design project that calls out the colonialist mindsets still deeply embedded in Philippine culture. It rebrands papaya soap, a popular skin-whitening product in the Philippines, to be more transparent about its perpetuation of harmful colonialist mindsets.