Yiyang Wu
CONTACT
wuyiyang.studio@gmail.com
y.wu17@student.gsa.ac.uk
A designer across objects,
services and systems.
Research, photography and digital experimentation shape how I observe, prototype and communicate.
My training spans Industry/Product Design and Transformation Design. I draw on service design methods, design research and digital prototyping to move between individual experiences and wider systems.
Photography shapes how I observe, document and frame situations.
Working with AI,
and on the questions it creates.
AI is both a working medium and a subject of critical inquiry.
Rather than treating AI only as a production tool, I explore how it reshapes authorship, agency, responsibility and creative decision-making.
Draw the Line
A reflective design project for making boundaries and responsibilities around AI-mediated creative practice visible and discussable.
Draw the Line explores how emerging creative practitioners negotiate boundaries around AI from two positions: as creators of source work and as AI users. Rather than proposing one universal rule, the project develops situated ways to compare conditions, responsibilities and points of uncertainty.
My AI Practice Statement
An individual reflection tool that asks one person to consider the same studio situation from both positions, then carry one reciprocal principle forward into later projects.
Trace the Line
A printable workshop that uses tokens and paper sheets to locate where AI entered a real design process, then returns to the relationship between someone else’s work, one’s own process and one’s own work entering another person’s process.
The project offers reflective infrastructure for discussion. It is not GSA policy, assessment guidance, a consent mechanism or legal advice.
The project begins with a structural bind: visibility helps creative practice circulate, but can also expose work to scraping, imitation and AI-mediated reuse.
This map follows how creative work travels across platforms, relationships and AI systems, locating where agency and responsibility become difficult to see.
The research reframed the issue as reciprocal: practitioners may negotiate boundaries both as creators of source work and as users of AI.
The opportunity was not to impose one universal rule, but to create situated ways of making different boundaries visible and discussable.
The same studio situation is considered twice: first as the creator of source work, then as the person using AI.
A speculative visualisation of Trace the Line in a facilitated workshop setting. The printable sheets are the designed artefact; the scene was generated with AI.