Boyi Tan monitoring a film setup with crew in a studio room Boyi Tan beside a cinema camera and monitor on set Camera monitor view with Boyi Tan pointing toward the lens Boyi Tan adjusting camera gear during an outdoor shoot Boyi Tan with actor Emily Osment on set
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PREVIOUSLYDirector · editor · camera trainee
CURRENTLYUX designer — Toronto
ABOUT·SAME STORY, TWO CUTS·TORONTO
ABOUT·NOW SCREENING·TORONTO

I come from storytelling, but I design for understanding.

My background began in film, where I learned how framing, pacing, and structure guide an audience through a story. As a director, editor, and camera trainee, I became interested in how people make sense of what they see — what they notice, what they miss, and how a sequence of moments becomes meaningful.

That question eventually led me to UX design.

Today, I design digital experiences that help people navigate complex systems, workflows, and decisions. My work often sits between service design, interactive prototyping, visual communication, and storytelling — from designing follow-up tools for social prescribing programs, to exploring trust in art commission platforms, to building interactive documentaries about audience choice and directorial control.

It started with a camera. Directing, editing, training behind the lens — I spent years deciding where an audience looks: what they notice, what they miss, and how a sequence of moments becomes meaningful.

Then the question outgrew the frame.

Now the set is a system — care programs, commission platforms, interactive documentaries about who really holds the camera. Different crew, same direction: guide people through complexity, one clear scene at a time.

01 · OBSERVE01 · FRAMING Like a documentary maker, I observe real contexts. Where to point the camera — and what to leave outside the shot.
02 · MAP02 · PACING Like a systems designer, I map hidden structures. When to hold a shot, and when to cut, so the audience never gets lost.
03 · DELIVER03 · STRUCTURE Like a UX designer, I turn them into clear, guided experiences. Hours of footage become a story an audience can follow.