Ming Yan is a designer and PhD student at Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. Her primary area of study is product and interaction design, emphasizing HMI theories in autonomous vehicles and the nature of design processes, particularly as they relate to product innovation and creativity. In this area, her PhD research topic is the user acceptance implications of HMI in autonomous vehicles on the role of the interaction design within AVs. Since 2013, her focus has been on the opportunities that smart and interactive artifacts provide for creating an engaging user experience. The aesthetics of interaction, product multi-sensory language, tangible interaction, and design for behavior change are specific research topics she has addressed in this field.