A rain tree alone in a golden field, an enormous cloud behind its crown

Nicole Nie

Cross-cultural human-machine interaction designer. Twelve-plus years: HP, Grab, FairPrice, now GIC's internal AI platform.

“In me, past, present, future meet.” Siegfried Sassoon

Case studies

Twelve-plus years of shipped work, and what's in progress. Drag to browse, click a card to read.

01 / 10

Backtesting a trading idea before trusting it

I built a trading system whose most useful output was telling me not to trade.

2026-07
02 / 10

A design system machines can read

Parametric color, a contrast gate that breaks the build, and fixing at the system level.

2026-07
03 / 10

Chat UI System Design at Grab

Four fragmented chats at Grab, one conversational platform. Draft in review.

2019
04 / 10

Grab for Business: a 0-to-1 B2B platform

Winning the case for research, then a 0-to-1 B2B platform. Draft in review.

2017-2019
05 / 10

Merchant Official Account: three experiments to prove a strategy

Three experiments to prove a moonshot strategy. 97% of engaged users opted in. Draft in review.

2019
06 / 10

Making UX measurable at HP

HP office printers: turning UX into a metric they could forecast. Draft in review.

2014-2016
07 / 10

Warmth in human-robot interaction

HRI research, 2012. The question under fourteen years of work. Draft in review.

2012
08 / 10

claude-os: an operating manual for working with AI

I turned months of repeated failures with AI into an operating manual and ten skills. Draft in review.

2026
09 / 10

Anila: a scroll-driven koi landing page

A scroll-driven koi animation for an early wellness venture, and the discipline to stop there. Draft in review.

2026
10 / 10

A local-first finance pipeline

Local-first finance engineering: read, categorise and track my own money with nothing sent to the cloud. Draft in review.

2026

Writing, and what's next

Essays in progress. Ventures taking shape.

site: nicolenie.com, live

day job: GIC's internal AI platform

ourora: a non-profit women's health community, forming

The first essay

Being written. Until then, the candid material lives in the cases.

Ourora, a non-profit women's health community · forming

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