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
Twelve-plus years of shipped work, and what's in progress. Drag to browse, click a card to read.
I built a trading system whose most useful output was telling me not to trade.
2026-07 02 / 10Parametric color, a contrast gate that breaks the build, and fixing at the system level.
2026-07 03 / 10Four fragmented chats at Grab, one conversational platform. Draft in review.
2019 04 / 10Winning the case for research, then a 0-to-1 B2B platform. Draft in review.
2017-2019 05 / 10Three experiments to prove a moonshot strategy. 97% of engaged users opted in. Draft in review.
2019 06 / 10HP office printers: turning UX into a metric they could forecast. Draft in review.
2014-2016 07 / 10HRI research, 2012. The question under fourteen years of work. Draft in review.
2012 08 / 10I turned months of repeated failures with AI into an operating manual and ten skills. Draft in review.
2026 09 / 10A scroll-driven koi animation for an early wellness venture, and the discipline to stop there. Draft in review.
2026 10 / 10Local-first finance engineering: read, categorise and track my own money with nothing sent to the cloud. Draft in review.
2026Essays 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
Being written. Until then, the candid material lives in the cases.
All of this runs on a system you can't see from here. Step into it.