hiiiii 🙋👋

hiiiii 🙋👋

I’m Quiana Dang, a game UX designer.

I love the way UX and system design can fully shape a player’s experience. I want my players to explore delightful, engaging systems; I want them to become immersed in the flows I create, without a single moment of confusion or inconsistency.

Click through my work or check out my resume to see for yourself how I’ve managed to do that.

When I'm not making games, I am on a mission to find the greatest coffee cake in the world. I also love Mini Motorways, The Strokes, capturing the world on camera, and my mother.

what i’m currently…

…playing

balatro
localthunk

I have been inviting friends to my apartment, have been sitting them down in front of the couch, and have not let them leave until they hit ante 5 at minimum.

…reading

the rattle bag
various poets; seamus heany, ted hughes

Songwriting is not something that comes naturally to me. The lyrics I write are never verbally satisfactory, somehow; yet, the lyrics I write are meant to be reflections of my emotions, so should I accept them as they are, naked as so?

I heard from a Reddit post that all the members of one of my favorite bands, Fontaines D.C., each owned a copy of The Rattle Bag and found great inspiration from the poems within. Seeing as I am always enamored with FDC’s lyrical game, I decided to do the classic and copy my idols. Will anything actually come out of this? Will I be happy with it? We’ll see. The poems are very good, though.

…listening to

loss of life
mgmt

First of all, MGMT released an album four months ago and no one told me? Anyways, I’m a sucker for emotive music, especially when the lyrics also reflect such meaning (see: the previous paragraph). Needless to say, Loss of Life (I mean, do you see that title) is full of that, particularly targeting the feelings of being just one part of the world… being stuck in this cycle of suck… and life still glistening, despite. Or, at least, that’s my interpretation of it. Standout tracks are the last four, rolling back into the first, to highlight the cyclical nature of it all. The cyclical nature of nature and time.