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
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El Paso, Van Horn, Marfa, Big Bend

2025


Panther Junction Visitor Center, Big Bend


Shot with Fuji Film X100VI (with the help of their WCL lens attachment), A visual meditation on landscape, transience, and the liminality of borders, this series traverses the vast terrains of El Paso, Marfa, and Big Bend—regions where history, isolation, and culture intersect. Through a synthesis of natural textures, shifting light, and human traces, the work examines the quiet tension between permanence and impermanence, the built and the unbuilt, the defined and the undefined.
 Each frame captures the sublime desolation of the desert, where shadows stretch across abandoned structures, and roadways dissolve into infinite horizons. Ghost towns, border markers, and eroded landscapes form the visual language of this project, mapping the intersection of physical and psychological boundaries.

Presented as a sequence of black-and-white and muted color compositions, the series distills the poetic stillness of these borderlands—an ephemeral document of space and displacement.