Anna Lai-yin QIN is an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. She was trainned with practical, technical and theoretical skillsets in Product Design at Central Saint Martins (UAL), she enjoyed the serendipity from design projects. With 15+ years experience in design consultancy, manufacturing, enterprise, and third sectors, she  worked with various teams in Europe, China and Hong Kong.

Anna's early work belongs to the medical field, where she applied human-centred design to hospital equipment, medicine processors and portable/domestic healthcare devices. These projects led her to pursue knowledge in the biomedical engineering field at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she received her MPhil in BME. Combining design and engineering, she further define her visions in various innovation projects such as the astronauts’ landing chair, an exoskeleton and smart insoles for rehabilitation, intelligent homes, and UX for fintech start-ups. She experienced entrepreneurship between 2014–16 by being the runners-up in the Hong Kong and National Challenge Cups; with the support from HKSTP’s incubation programmes, they were able to bring some of the patented prototypes to market.

• Commercial product & services solutions design
• Human-centered design (HCD) / Ergonomics
• Industrial manufacturing processes
• New materials
• UX & UI
• Branding & marketing
• Culture & Craftsmanship
• Entrepreneurship
• Social innovation
• Sustainable Design Thinking
• Design for Wellbeing