Chengcheng Hou
( Mitchell )



Chengcheng Hou, is an interdisciplinary designer and visual artist working at the nexus of digital health, user experience, and urban storytelling. His practice spans the realms of product design, typographic experimentation, and documentary photography, weaving together form, function, and narrative to create evocative, human-centered experiences.

As the lead product designer at Tia, he architects digital systems that redefine healthcare interactions, translating clinical complexity into seamless, intuitive interfaces. His work on Tia’s first web-based EMR system has transformed provider workflows—minimizing friction, automating care coordination, and expanding patient access.

Learn about Tia here.

Parallel to his work in digital design, Chengcheng engages with print and photography as a medium for spatial and cultural documentation. His work in risograph printing and type design further extends his exploration of ephemerality, layering textures, typography, and archival fragments to construct visual narratives that straddle past and present.
Chengcheng’s work has been featured in publications, design forums, and academic institutions, including a speaking engagement at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), where he shared insights on crafting portfolios and navigating the evolving design industry. His practice is an evolving inquiry into how design mediates human experience—whether through the ergonomics of a clinical interface or the patina of a city in flux.

For exhibitions, collaborations, or inquiries, please get in touch.  


Work Experiences
  1. Tia, Inc. (Senior Product Designer,  Nov 2021 – Present)
  2. Oak Studios LLC (UI/UX, Product Designer, Oct 2019 – Nov 2021)
  3. Studio None (Freelance Designer, Aug 2019 – Nov 2021)

Awards
  1. Creative Communication Awards
  2. Communication Arts
  3. UX Design Award
  4. Paris Design Award
  5. International Design Awards
  6. Graphis New Talent Annual
  7. Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Press
  1. Marketers Media (Tia Celebrates Senior Product Designer Chengcheng Hou, Sept 30, 2024)
  2. AIGA NYC (Community Spotlight, Jan 30, 2024)
  3. Cargo Collective (Site in Use, Site of the Week, Feb 20, 2021)

Exhibitions
  1. Las Laguna Art Gallery (Outstanding 2022)
  2. The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss National Poster Show, 2022)
  3. Open Collab Exhibition (Typographic Session, 2021)

Memberships
  1. International Society of Typographic Designers (MISTD)
  2. AIGA – The Professional Association of Design
  3. One Club for Creativity
  4. ADPList (Weekly Product Design Mentor)
  5. Vand (Taken Oath Designer)



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Site last updated Feb 2025
Projects 

El Paso, Van Horn, Marfa, Big Bend

Photography

2025

Latest Product Design Portfolio

Design

2023

Latest Graphic Design Portfolio

Design

2022

Note: At present, my Graphic Design Portfolio and Product Design Portfolio exist as a Figma archive and a PDF dossier, serving as evolving records of process and practice. In time, these works may find a more integrated presence within this site—an unfolding curation in dialogue with the shifting nature of design itself.
05/05/2025


We are here again, I wish we stay the same. 

We arrived just before the hum — before the sky fully settled into its flat, reflective gray. We were not meant to be here exactly, but that has never been a reliable measure. “Here” is always a soft claim, in places like this.

There was no train, not yet, but the residue of many passed. The platforms held an afterimage — of metal pressure, heel weight, dead pigeons, litters, the suspended expectation of movement.

Below, a trench of circulatory filth — track beds and wires like veins(who said our society is not a living being?), still glinting with trace energy. We peered over the railing, where air conditioners leaned out of metal containers like ossified tongues, breathing nothing. The ladder-ribs of the station skeleton led nowhere but down.

The junction was said to be a point of transfer, but the architecture had long given up that fantasy. This was a holding organ.

The antennae pulsed with a faint thirst. It is always with structures like these — not sentient, not alive, but perceptually hungry. If you’re quiet enough, you can feel it: the pull of electromagnetic melancholy. A grid longing for meaning beyond coordination.

We fixated on each other. The mist tasted slightly of battery acid and ozone. Our mouths felt full of static. We can’t tell if it is sweat or mist dripping off on our foreheads. Somewhere, a bell rang, then stopped, then returned, off-rhythm. We waited — not for a train, but for the next phase. The slow shift.

It came — not as a sound, but as a colorless flush through the visual field. A premonition in glass and rust. The red tones were gone. Now only steel and fog, stratified. We watched ourselves dissolve into the platform.

Eventually the sign would change. Eventually a car would arrive. But this was the moment between — and we knew not to speak.
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