Chengcheng Hou
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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. Bronze A’s Designa Awards 
  2. Creative Communication Awards
  3. Awwwards
  4. Communication Arts
  5. UX Design Award
  6. Paris Design Award
  7. International Design Awards
  8. Graphis New Talent Annual

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

Leadership & Volunteering
  1. ADPList, Advanced Product Design Mentor
  2. ADPList, Advanced Product Design Mentor
  3. SVA, Visiting Guest




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Site last updated Feb 2025
Projects
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El Paso, Van Horn, Marfa, Big Bend

Photography

2025

Latest Product Design Portfolio (PWD required)

Design

2025

Latest Graphic Design Portfolio

Design

2022

Note: This site currently serves as an appendix of all of my works including photography, graphic design, as well as product design. 
07/28/2025
Where are you gone this time?

We return, though we have no record of the original arrival.
The arch is familiar — a spinal threshold, vertebrae in mortar — and stepping through it is less locomotion, more transcription. We enter like a stylus pressed gently into damp wax.

Everywhere is stone. Cut, placed, worn. The walls do not speak — they exhale. Calcium ghosts. Hand-chiseled breath. The ornamentation is subtle, until it isn’t. A column capital shows a figure pulling something from their own mouth, or placing it back in. No one we ask remembers the myth. Or admits to.

Above, stained glass holds light without intention. The panes do not depict, they filter. The images have long since degraded into gesture: the raised hand of a saint, perhaps, or the wingtip of a story.

Not far away, a couple sits beside the fountain, chatting — gently, faintly — about whether Jesus was born with the perfect kind of body. Their voices are almost lost in the shimmer of insect sound, just audible beneath the busy static of what I believe are garden bees.

We sit at the edge of the garden, within the cloistered breath, and listen. The stone does not echo. It holds. Sound here is absorbed and softened. There is no judgment in the silence, but there is presence.

Hang on, you got me here again. And now, I wish we stay the same. 

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