Angelina Wu Headshot

Hey, I’m Angelina, a second-year student at UCLA studying Design Media Arts and Statistics/Data Science. I’ve always believed in designing to delight: creating things that spark curiosity, joy, and connection. For me, design is a way to build tiny bridges between people, and help them see the otherworldly in the ordinary.

My love for design began early when I was introduced to Powerpoint by my second-grade teacher. Enamored by WordArt, dramatic animations, and maximalist display fonts (Algerian was my fave), I immediately fell in love with the whole practice of designing. I would spend hours on my dad's Microsoft account creating slide presentations on every topic I could think of.

Back then, I didn’t know what design was: I just knew I loved making things look exciting on screen. That early obsession with typography, color, and movement stuck with me, slowly evolving from silly slideshows into a real passion for designing thoughtful interfaces that inspire and delight.

Feel free to shoot me an email at angelinawu05@gmail.com or take a peek at my resume .

Skills & Tools

FigmaAdobe CCUX ResearchUI DesignInteraction DesignDesign SystemsPrototypingAccessibility (a11y)HTML/CSSJavaScriptTypeScriptReactViteNext.jsFramer MotionTailwind CSSNode.jsGit/GitHubVercelR

Experience

UCLA Arts logo

UCLA Arts

Oct 2025 – Present

Student Designer in Residence (Part-time)

Los Angeles, CA
  • Designing posters, social media assets, and motion graphics for UCLA Arts’ strategic communications team.
  • Supporting community-building, original storytelling, and event production within UCLA Arts brand guidelines.
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UCLA Latino Policy Institute

Aug 2025 – Present

Student Website Designer (Part-time)

Los Angeles, CA
  • Updating and maintaining a WordPress site (22,000+ monthly viewers) to enhance usability and visual consistency within UCLA brand guidelines.
  • Translating complex research publications into accessible, engaging designs.
VEST at UCLA logo

VEST at UCLA

Jan 2025 – Present

Head of Design

Los Angeles, CA
  • Cultivating a startup culture on the UCLA campus, creating a tight-knit community of ambitious builders who care about high-impact work.
  • Designing and engineering frontend components for early‑stage tech startups.
  • Led a team to complete the end‑to‑end design and development of the organization’s website with Next.js and Tailwind.
ACM at UCLA logo

ACM at UCLA

Jan 2025 – Present

Design Director

Los Angeles, CA
  • Leading design initiatives for 200+ officers across 9 committees at the largest CS student org in SoCal.
  • Collaborated with Workup (NVIDIA‑incubated) to redesign and relaunch its website informed by 20+ interviews and 50+ survey responses.
  • Making design education more accessible through workshops and mentorship.
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Manifesto Market

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

UX Intern

Prague, Czechia
  • Conducted a comprehensive UX audit and redesign (14,000+ monthly viewers), improving reservation conversion by 121%.
  • Designed and launched a WordPress site for sister brand KalleHalle, optimizing content for conversion.
  • Leveraged Google Analytics to uncover user behavior trends and set redesign priorities.

Okay, that's all the serious stuff...

Here are some other things I'm into

Books that made me

Beartown
Stay True
Harrow the Ninth
Out of My Mind
Beloved

Albums on repeat

FISSION
GUTS
SUCKERPUNCH
Water the Flowers, Pray for a Garden
BADLANDS

In my free time I can be found...

  • Collecting stickers
  • Reading tearjerker novels about friendship and family
  • Going down Wikipedia rabbit holes
  • Studying dead languages
  • Studying alive languages
  • Writing emails to myself
  • Making spreadsheets
  • People-watching
  • Organizing my bookmarks bar in rainbow order
  • (Unsuccessfully) trying to learn how to whistle

Like what you see?

Let's make something cool together.