Nancy Yi Liang

I transform code into physical objects | New Initiatives at Amazon | Co Founder at Mixee Labs

Seattle, WA
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Jun 20, 2025

Can AI Replace Humans in User Research?

Can AI Replace Humans in User Research?

Recently, Stanford published an paper about AI Agents Simulating People (Jan 2025), in which AI simulated survey responses that humans answered with 85% accuracy. The AI doppleganger agents were trained on their human

Oct 21, 2022

Guqin Part 4: Jian Zi Pu Font (减字谱)

Guqin Part 4: Jian Zi Pu Font (减字谱)

JianZiPu is a way to write notation for Guqin (古琴) music. Guqin music is traditionally written using a character based system, but the character set isn't really found in any known languages. This font solves that problem.

Jan 4, 2021

Guqin Coda: TLDRs & Links

Guqin Coda: TLDRs & Links

I had a fun musical journey these past two weeks (in between holiday celebrations, and so so so much food). I am documenting some of my learnings, musings, and inventions here so I

Jan 4, 2021

Guqin Part 3: Tablature Old and New

Guqin Part 3: Tablature Old and New

Now that we've figured out where to press or touch to play notes (Part 1: Harmonics and Hui Positions [https://blog.nyl.io/guqin-part-1-harmonics-and-hui/] , Guqin Part 2: Open & Pressed Notes

Jan 4, 2021

Guqin Part 2: Open and Pressed Notes

Guqin Part 2: Open and Pressed Notes

In the last part of this series, Guqin Part 1: Harmonics and Hui Positions [https://blog.nyl.io/guqin-part-1-harmonics/], I look at how harmonics determine the position of the 13 Huis (Huī 徽)

Feb 14, 2017

New Laser Cut Dress

New Laser Cut Dress

I made a new dress using the same process discussed in this post [https://blog.nyl.io/laser-cut-arcsin-dress/]. As before, I started with a 3D model. Here's the laser in progress.