Brown-RISD Master of Arts in Design Engineering

Danning Li earned her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Minzu University of China in 2024. She subsequently worked as a reporting intern at Xinhua News Agency. In 2025, she joined the Future Laboratory at Tsinghua University as a research assistant in the Tactile Research Group, where she worked on projects exploring the impact of haptic feedback from automotive touchscreen interfaces on driving safety, as well as TacChat, an integrated tactile graphics display and service system designed for people who are blind or visually impaired.

She is currently a graduate student in the Master of Arts in Design Engineering (MADE) program at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Her interests lie at the intersection of human-computer interaction, experience design, service design, and user research.